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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside...
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Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of...
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If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have...
Quote #6990
As the old proverb says “Like readily consorts with like.”
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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that...
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I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to...
Quote #19813
To obtain a man’s opinion of you, make him mad.
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People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be...
Quote #15120
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity,...