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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who...
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Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think...
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While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with...
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I knew her before she was a virgin.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we...
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For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
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I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which...
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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When he has ceased to hear the many, he may discern the One –...