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The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.
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The Universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn’t be missed...
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The highest happiness of man … is to have probed what is knowable and...
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it...
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There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a...
Quote #6623
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never...
Quote #12459
You cannot keep a man down without staying down with him.
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A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good...
Quote #19730
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.