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There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do,...
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever...
Quote #14766
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these...
Quote #4786
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Quote #4531
I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.
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Satire is focused bitterness.
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He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
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Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book.