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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain...
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The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which...
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray...
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Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another.
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To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is...
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Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself...
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True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table...
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People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready...
Quote #34148
Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain.