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It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise...
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I don’t like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
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I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field,...
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Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to...
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to...
Quote #19772
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike...
Quote #5690
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks...
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The essence of a general’s job is to assist in developing a clear sense...
Quote #4731
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.