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We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must...
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Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by...
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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to...
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Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.
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A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as...
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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he...
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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is...
Quote #13468
Opportunity knocks at the strangest times, It’s not the time that matters But how...