"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference."
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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
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"There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be."
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"Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people."
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"We live at the edge of the miraculous."
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"The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money."
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"Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base."
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"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."
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"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."
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"Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes."
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"Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions."
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"The key to education is the experience of beauty."
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"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation."
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"Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim."
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"New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed."
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"Short things are short all over and long things are long all over."
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"All things are only transitory."
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"Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it."
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"What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won."
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"All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul."
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