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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.
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Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak...
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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist...
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There wouldn’t be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real...
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Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of...
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An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
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My father said, ‘Politics asks the question Is it expedient Vanity asks Is it...
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to...
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A university’s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and...
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it...