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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The...
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I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.
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We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we...
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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the...
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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we...
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A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.
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To die, to sleep –To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there’s the rub,For in...
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Platitude an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b)...
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Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war...
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To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would...