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To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind...
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If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers.
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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do...
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A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be...
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Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love...
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them...
Quote #15789
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification....
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Money is in some respects life’s fire it is a very excellent servant, but...
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It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security...
Quote #8998
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!