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Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.
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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The...
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It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that ‘Men having often abandoned what was...
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“My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of...
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended...
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One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not...
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Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun,...
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Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed,...
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Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by...
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in...