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The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.
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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
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We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
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We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
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A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
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A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.
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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
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A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
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