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Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the...
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A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and...
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He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it...
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One’s life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have...
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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and...
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Just the omission of Jane Austen’s books alone would make a fairly good library...
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If you’re trying to remember a happy memory, don’t think back to a time...
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There it was, hidden in alphabetical order.
Quote #21037
First Appeared in 1721