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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they...
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The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg,...
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The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do...
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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s...
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several–from foolish vanity,...
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I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
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Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy and the...
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Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing...
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.