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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill...

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill...

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not...

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not...

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and...

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and...

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought...

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought...

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as...

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as...