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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The...
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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind – listen to the birds....
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You may share the labours of the great, but you may not share the...
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Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as...
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Human kind cannot bear much reality.
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Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books
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Why learn at all if one day we will die and forget everything
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He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing....