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He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so...
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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
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If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have...
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He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the...
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Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will...
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A classic is a book which people praise and don’t read.
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Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like...
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to...
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I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable...