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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist...
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There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.
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Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.
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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own...
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I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in...
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has...
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What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
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It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to...