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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one...
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…because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.
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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared...
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The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when...
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Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple...
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in...
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For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal...
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you...
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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring...