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My mother loved children — she would have given anything if I had been...
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and...
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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it...
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Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age,...
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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He that can’t endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
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So full of artless jealousy is guilt,It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all...
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things...