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There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He...
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I used to think that the Civil War was our country’s greatest tragedy, but...
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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is...
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In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibration...
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Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing...
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A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
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Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
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To receive everything, one must open one’s hands and give.
Quote #16955
Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.