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History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.
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While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of...
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The only cure for contempt is countercontempt.
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I wish they would only take me as I am.
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I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey...
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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and...
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If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re...
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end...
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his...