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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man...
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Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for...
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Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled...
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life...
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You see things and you say ‘Why’ But I dream things that never were...
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience...
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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others...
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I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to...
Quote #11271
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely...