The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
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