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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out...
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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that...
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A classic is a book which people praise and don’t read.
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Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike...
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If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any...
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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
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You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the...
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If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not...
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas,...