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I like to have a man’s knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics,...
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to...
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root...
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man...
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The darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan...
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I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable … but through it all I...
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Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the...
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Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die… Wise men write many books,...