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 | "Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean
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Found in the topic Mind.
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| "The real essence of work is concentrated energy ? people who really
have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and
habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up
to their labors." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "The essence of work is concentrated energy." | |
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Found in the topic Work.
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| "A man who has not read Homer is like a man who has not seen the
ocean. There is a great object of which he has no idea." | |
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Found in the topic Waste.
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| "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot
do." | |
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Found in the topic Gravity.
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| "The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the
whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good
or harm." | |
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Found in the topic Generation.
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| "Life is a school of probability." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "It has been said that England invented the phrase, ?Her Majesty?s
Opposition?; that it was the first government which made a criticism of
administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This
critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government." | |
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Found in the topic Administration.
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| "One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new
idea." | |
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Found in the topic Change.
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| "It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without
temptations." | |
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Found in the topic Temptation.
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| "The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people
who can write know anything." | |
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Found in the topic Author.
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| "Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the
whole mind ... but it does not look as if it did." | |
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Found in the topic Business.
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| "An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of
mankind." | |
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Found in the topic Quiet.
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| "The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can
be." | |
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Found in the topic Agreement.
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