However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever...
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The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's own growing inner self.... T...
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A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.
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My lord, the crown which I have borne so long has given enough of vanity in my time. I beseech you not to augment it in this hour when I am so...
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He who desires to augment his own flesh by eating the flesh of other creatures lives in misery in whatever species he may take his birth.
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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
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I shall not want false witness to condemn me, Nor store of treasons to augment my guilt....
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