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Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.
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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
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Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
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Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.
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True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
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True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.
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True enough, Osama bin Laden is dead and other al-Qaeda leaders have joined him. But, the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi is a brutal reminder that radical Islamic terror groups have not disappeared and certainly are not dormant.
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True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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