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100 invested at 7 interest for 100 years will become 100,000, at which time...
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We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.
Quote #18379
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and...
Quote #19127
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control...
Quote #7191
No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about...
Quote #5600
Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
Quote #5790
The great discoveries are usually obvious.
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Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.
Quote #6199
While history is much more than a record of magnified personal encounters, it also...
Quote #21643
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the...