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The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it...
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill...
Quote #8957
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
Quote #8581
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that...
Quote #21497
For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
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Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge...
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Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of...
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A wise man’s question contains half the answer.
Quote #8129
My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Quote #1056
Of no mortal say, ‘That man is happy,’ till vexed by no grievous ill...