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If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and descri ...
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in hi ...
They can never have known old monks, wise, shrewd, unerring in judgment, and yet aglow with passionate insight, so very tender in ...
A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of s ...
The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and ...
The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live ...
I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one.
Music, theoretically considered, consists altogether of lines of tone. It more nearly resembles a picture or an architectural draw ...
If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic circle would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent convers ...
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
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