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The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man...
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no...
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I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a...
Quote #21545
I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look...
Quote #8845
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day...
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You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has...
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If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
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Ask the experienced rather than the learned.
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A big book is a big bore.
Quote #6995
Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a...