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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science...
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.
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To greed, all nature is insufficient. – Hercules Oetaeus
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A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
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The great object is, that every man be armed. … Every one who is...
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Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general,...
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Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was...
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Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke...
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost,...
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more...