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If I had...

If I had...

If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.

Source: At age...

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Love is like...

Love is like...

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts...

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DAWN, n. The...

DAWN, n. The...

DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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We do not...

We do not...

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

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Every man, in...

Every man, in...

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

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His thoughts did...

His thoughts did...

His thoughts did not seem to come with labour and effort; but as if borne on gusts of genius, and as if the wings of...

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Some persons make...

Some persons make...

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Source: In

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The more we...

The more we...

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

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The perfect joys...

The perfect joys...

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

Source: In...

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In economics, we...

In economics, we...

In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of...

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Beyond talent lie...

Beyond talent lie...

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all,...

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Most of us...

Most of us...

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of...

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Remember, to hate,...

Remember, to hate,...

Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love and be...

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It was books...

It was books...

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the...

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A tavern chair...

A tavern chair...

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.

Source: Johnsonian Miscellanies,...

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Disappointment, when it...

Disappointment, when it...

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the...

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I deny the...

I deny the...

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him. You have no business with consequences;...

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I know not,...

I know not,...

I know not, that by living dissections any discovery has been made by which a single malady is more easily...

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Democracy is much...

Democracy is much...

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

Source: In Webster's...

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Many a time...

Many a time...

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

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