Quote #17643
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can...
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Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have...
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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and...
Quote #33485
Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
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She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she...
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In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of...
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
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It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable...