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Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age,...
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Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when...
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If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does,...
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I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had...
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It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of...
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Crime wouldn’t pay if the government ran it.
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My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It...
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Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome...