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My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding...
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I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable … but through it all I...
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Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
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The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior...
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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered...
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By force of arms.
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We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body,...
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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If you’re trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it’s a lot...