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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their…
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In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own…
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Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by…
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The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
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Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of…
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Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure,…
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Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but…
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Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.
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Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents…
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Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their…
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A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the…
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Everybody knows from his own experience that after laughter, good laughter, a belly laugh, you almost feel that you have taken an…
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Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.
— Bill Hicks
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Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it,…
— Jules de Goncourt
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It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When…
— Unknown Author
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I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Everybody knows everybody's dying, that's why people are as good as they are.
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