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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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When you have decided to purchase a farm, be careful not to buy rashly; do not spare your visits and be not content with a single tour of inspection. The more you go, the more will the place please you, if it be worth your attention. Give heed to the appearance of the neighbourhood, - a flourishing country should show its prosperity. "When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out."
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Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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It is not the pleasure of curiosity, nor the quiet of resolution, nor the raising of the spirit, nor victory of wit, nor faculty of speech... that are the true ends of knowledge... but it is a restitution and reinvesting, in great part, of man to the sovereignty and power, for whensoever he shall be able to call the creatures by their true names, he shall again command them.
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All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself.
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Ideas consume the ages as passions consume men. When man is cured, humanity may possibly cure itself.
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When the race gets hard to run, it means you just can't take the pace.
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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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The harebrained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
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