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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of...
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is...
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study...
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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
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Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to...
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Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the...
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without...
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
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What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme,...