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It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our...
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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical...
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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to...
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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If you bow at all, bow low.
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Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems...
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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one...
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‘Tis pleasant, sure, to see one’s name in print. A book’s a book, although...
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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be...
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He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor,...