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Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in...
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Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye...
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He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself...
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The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed...
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You know what charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having...
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Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their...
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One’s life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have...
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing...