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Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an...
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Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall...
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It is easier to talk about money — and much easier to talk about...
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to...
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The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were...
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. –...
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
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Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things...