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The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its...
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Do not consider painful what is good for you.
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A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave...
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than...
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The secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something...
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I have been both rich and poor–while I have respect for both, I am...
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The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight...
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The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to...
Quote #4825
To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.
Quote #19031
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue more clever than another.