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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made...
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What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do...
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Property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue–a...
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I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my...
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If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what...
Quote #18719
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it...
Quote #15475
Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.
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A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has...
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Quote #27632
The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.