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Being a man, ne’er ask the gods for a life set free from grief,...
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We are the total of our longings.
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Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a...
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors,...
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it...
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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a...
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The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in...
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Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education...