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A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room...
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When at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on...
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O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of...
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A good deal happens in a man’s life that he isn’t responsible for. Fortunate...
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The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however...
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not...
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies...
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Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.
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Music–the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but...
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There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men...