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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that…
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I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.
— Kevin Bacon
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For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.
— Robert Motherwell
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I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years,…
— Megan Abbott
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In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as…
— Samuel Johnson
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I watched the Star Wars trilogy with some good friends of mine for the first time in a few years, I read…
— Ian Doescher
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As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during…
— Neil Gaiman
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For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha…
— John Updike
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The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm…
— Sumner Redstone
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