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Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.
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The difficulty in life is the choice.
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Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was...
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The time to reapir the roof is when the sun is shining.
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The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working...
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Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. – Notebook, 1898
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If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within...
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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist...
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Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his...