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Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore...
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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That was my gift — having the ability to put certain guys together that...
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Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a...
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Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their...
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having...
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In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and...
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There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men...
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When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is...
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Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.