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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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When a thing is new, people say ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its...
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science...
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When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of...
Quote #29835
To disarm the people… was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
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Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
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If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely...
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Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and...
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Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow...
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Accidents, try to change them — it’s impossible. The accidental reveals man.