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Luck is the residue of design.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken...
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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that’s...
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vicesMake instruments to plague us.
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little...
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Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it,...
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these...
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It’s better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at...