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Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the ‘free’ European peasants suffered considerably greater...
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It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a...
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Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the...
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Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the...
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing...
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that...
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Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.