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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
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What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may...
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Of no mortal say, ‘That man is happy,’ till vexed by no grievous ill...
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As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn’t thereHe wasn’t...
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Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.
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To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect...
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self, but the...
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looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
Quote #5622
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.