The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.
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Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
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Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.
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Readers of the twenty-first chapter must decide for themselves whether it enhances the book they presumably know or is really a discardable limb. I meant the book to end in this way, but my aesthetic judgement may have been faulty. Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics. 'Quod scripsi scripsi' said Pontius Pilate when he made Jesus Christ the King of the Jews. 'What I have written I have Written.' We can destroy what we have written but we cannot unwrite it. I leave what I wrote with what Dr. Johnson called frigid indifference to the judgement of that .00000001 of the American population which cares about such things. Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.
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Var glad, det värsta har inte inträffat ännu!
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Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
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Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.
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The endearing elegance of female friendship.
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The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today.
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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We have kept faith with the majority of the side that underperformed in Dublin and told them to go out there and put things right.
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Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty....
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A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.
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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
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If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
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Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity."
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The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.
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Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
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We talked of the education of children; and I asked him what he thought was best to teach them first. JOHNSON. "Sir, it is no matter what you ...
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The sports reporters got everything all worked up.
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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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