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The highest happiness of man … is to have probed what is knowable and...
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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors...
Quote #10737
Outside show is a poor substitution for inner worth.
Quote #15477
Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you...
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People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and...
Quote #4931
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
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I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land...
Quote #25932
I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
Quote #14801
Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.