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Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no...
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The sin they do two by two they must pay for one by one.
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Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an...
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Life is not a laughing matter, but can you imagine having to live without...
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of...
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‘We are always doing’, says he, ‘something for Posterity, but I would fain see...
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No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely...
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There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself...
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So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the...