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The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy...
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My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent...
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The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage...
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take...
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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
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Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman....
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a...
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science...
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Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.