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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind...
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then...
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk...
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There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big...
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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
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You don’t pay back your parents. You can’t. The debt you owe them gets...
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The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of...
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The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life,...