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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am...
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Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under...
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There is only one admirable form of the imagination the imagination that is so...
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Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy and the...
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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is...
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He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot...
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A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages;...
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The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.
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The public is a ferocious beast — one must either chain it up or...
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Why was I born with such contemporaries