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Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an...
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
Quote #15420
Even pleasure itself is a toil.
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Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy and the...
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to...
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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny...
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of...
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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without...
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Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the...
Quote #8076
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.