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To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
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How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but...
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Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities,...
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If there is no gardener there is no garden.
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she...
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for...
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When I only begin to read, I forget I’m on this world. It lifts...
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If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be...
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An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man...
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Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we...