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I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
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I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to...
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a...
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Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we...
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Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once....
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Don’t ask silly questions if you don’t want foolish answers.
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue...
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There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one’s...
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A home without books is a body without soul.
Quote #20272
The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.