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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed...
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A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not...
Quote #7966
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
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How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we...
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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in...
Quote #1137
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change...
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social...
Quote #6785
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances...
Quote #1198
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most...