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When your mother dies, it really hurts. But with time, you get used to it. That's nature's way.

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William Benton Clulow

Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified by his style; a man of vigorous powers makes his style bend to his conceptions.

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Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.

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Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.

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Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.

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After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?

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The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.

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