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Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge...
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good...
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it...
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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that...
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All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly...
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science...
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is...
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist...
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To write simply is as difficult as to be good.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and...