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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that...
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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows...
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Wildness. We’re running out of it, even up in Alaska. People need to be...
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Possunt quia posse videntur. (They can because they think they can, from The Aeneid)
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Our children are not going to be just our children-they are going to be...
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One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood....
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All the world wondered as they witnessed … a people lift themselves from humiliation...
Quote #522
Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges,...
Quote #20522
The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word...
Quote #5741
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to...