“Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.”
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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
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It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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