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He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
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I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention – invention, in my opinion,...
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What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to...
Quote #12459
One must do violence to the object of one’s desire when it surrenders, the...
Quote #17201
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
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…happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which...
Quote #10860
History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about...
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the...
Quote #19467
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
Quote #17180
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts–the book of their deeds, the book...