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A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And...
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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
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Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was...
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Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a...
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The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in...
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To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is...
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are...
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I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world...
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without...