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No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human...
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Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.
Quote #2193
Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the...
Quote #24371
There’s nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in...
Quote #20511
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it...
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The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight...
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Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners;...
Quote #11195
A groundless rumor often covers a lot of ground.
Quote #3817
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Quote #18640
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being...