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What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered,...
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We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can’t scoff...
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Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other...
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Literature is news that stays news.
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The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement...
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible,...
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How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist...
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of...