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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of...
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If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as...
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True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that...
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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the...
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When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put...
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Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
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Civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on...
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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have,...