Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
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The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
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He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for convenience takes it Then how can any man be said To break an oath he never made.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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