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The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation...
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity...
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Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven,...
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.–I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the...
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if...
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to...
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Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There...
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Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was...
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be...