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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is...
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war, for a leading role in...
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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or...
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But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and...
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Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which...
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble...
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History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory...