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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life...
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social...
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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but...
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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make...
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The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world...
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is...
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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings...
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it...
Quote #9035
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.