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Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge...
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And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop’d we live and...
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When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that...
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Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell...
Quote #4591
You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the...
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of...
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It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to...
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A hypocrite is a person who–but who isn’t
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To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave...