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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts...
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If you are losing your leisure, look out You are losing your soul.
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Any ordinary man can…surround himself with two thousand books…and thenceforward have at least one...
Quote #11271
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do...
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To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror...
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or...
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No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling...
Quote #29388
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several–from foolish vanity,...
Quote #13758
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?