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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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Bluntness is a virtue.
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I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart,...
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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing,...
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I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe… I am a storyteller.
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Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what...
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought...
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In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight...
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There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable...
Quote #23046
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered...