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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own...
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Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for...
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‘I wish life was not so short,’ he thought. ‘Languages take such a time,...
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This...
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Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge...
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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable...
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Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted...
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The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial...
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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.