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The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour’s discourse a...
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In necessary things, unity in doubtful things, liberty in all things, charity.
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If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there first, to...
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I wish there could have been an invention that bottled up a memory, like...
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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven...
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Every man has his follies — and often they are the most interesting thing...
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.