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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is...
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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or...
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To business that we love, we rise betime and go to’t with delight.
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To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
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Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or...
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There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that...
Quote #12807
The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at...
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The real wit tells jokes to make others feel superior, while the half-wit tells...
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As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly...
Quote #17724
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.