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A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
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Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands....
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own...
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America Where a man can say what he thinks, if he isn’t afraid of...
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and...
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Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of...
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If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within...
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A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach...
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Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas. (No one sees what is...
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Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never...