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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Society is now one polished horde, — Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores...
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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
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We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once...