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Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave...
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Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp...
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Property has its duties as well as its rights.
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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.
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They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
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The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race...
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end...
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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one’s husband, but how...
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In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does...