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To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole...
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At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a...
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Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.
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I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to...
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It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.
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It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day...
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are...
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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until...
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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of...