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Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l’admire. (A fool always finds a...
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It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
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What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five...
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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and...
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If you don’t know what to do with many of the papers piled on...
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the...
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I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent,...
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you...
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but...