To be really cosmopolitan, a man must be at home even in his own country.
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.Thomas W. Higginson
Do not waste a minutenot a secondin trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
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There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
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When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
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