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...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but…
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An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and…
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The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the more severe, because…
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One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure…
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The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.
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That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which…
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge…
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You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of…
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
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Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor…
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Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.
— John Belushi
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I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.
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