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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to...
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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son,...
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I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. Not the...
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to...
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I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I...
Quote #2418
Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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The Moving Finger writes and, having writ, Moves on nor all your Piety nor...
Quote #10716
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.
Quote #22065
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest...