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What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do...
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
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Read much, but not many books.
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The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which...
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The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as...
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Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn’t cure.
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What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness...
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the...
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Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour...
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take...