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Puritanism The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a...
Quote #17947
I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
Quote #15675
The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness...
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble...
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
Quote #4073
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.