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If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is...
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men,...
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There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I...
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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of...
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as...
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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
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The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the...
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure,...