In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Home is where the heart is.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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