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You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our...
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The time to reapir the roof is when the sun is shining.
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If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness,...
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A formula for answering controversial letters — without even reading the letters Dear Sir...
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Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it...
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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which...
Quote #20111
Be not slow to visit the sick.
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In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of...
Quote #10976
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don’t...