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What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for...
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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed...
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He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is...
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A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles...
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
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Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
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Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end,...
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Quote #15819
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of...