A man's library is a sort of harem.
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I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.'
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If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
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Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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