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You can complain because roses have have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns...
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise...
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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not...
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be...
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one,...
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Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated...
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life...
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has...