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I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to...
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Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war, for a leading role in...
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Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes...
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He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing....
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Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and...
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History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory...
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve...
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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than...
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I don’t have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you’re really lonely you...
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science...