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Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power...
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We don’t love qualities, we love persons sometimes by reason of their defects as...
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The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he...
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Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You...
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The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
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I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new...
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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they...
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This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.