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Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing...
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to...
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker,...
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There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must...
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Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.
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I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that...
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Whenever you fall, pick up something
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I’m not going to let anybody come down at night like Nicodemus and whisper...
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I...
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author...