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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty...
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to...
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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky
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It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and...
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Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the...
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The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange...
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How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you...
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never foughtShould contrive our...