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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Happiness Human Old Race War
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Beyond Endurance Human Pain Solitude
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Himself Spirit Travel
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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Accomplishment Distance Earth Future Growth Water
What you do for money you do badly.
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Bad Money One Liner Work Yourself
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Best Listening Necessary Oneself Teaching
I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Heart Myself Time
Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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Errors Man Mistake Right Science Truth
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Action God Greatness Return
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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Art Better Feeling Way Work Yourself
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Goodness Job Oneself Thinking Time
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Education Knowledge One Liner
What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Darkness Light Myself Perspective Yourself
Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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Constitution Feeling Imagination Man Purity Satisfaction Understand

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