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Life … would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we....
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Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men...
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Great is truth, and all powerful.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but...
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The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.
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Getting fired is nature’s way to telling you that you had the wrong job...
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You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one...
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Part of the power of Emerson’s individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that...
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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.