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id: 20718
author: Glyn, Elinor
title: The Damsel and the Sage: A Woman's Whimsies
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  And tell me, Sage, what became of the ear? asked the Damsel. * * Please open the door, Sage, entreated the Damsel, and I will tell you a story.


id: 16065
author: Leavitt, Thad. W. H. (Thaddeus William Henry)
title: Wise or Otherwise
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  * * * Two things in life man regards with esteem: himself and his pipe. * * * Slaves are bound with fetters of steel--poor men with fetters of law.


id: 36821
author: Penn, Richard
title: Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters Also, Miseries of Fishing
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  Amongst good players, it is considered to be as much an indispensable condition of the game, that a piece once touched must be moved, as that the queen is not allowed to have the knight's, or a rook the bishop's move. Of those who have had more practice, some have acquired a partial insight into the endless variety of the combinations which may be formed, and their beautiful intricacy:--a few play moderately well; but, however small the number of good players may be, it would be difficult to find any one who, after having played a few hundred games, would not think it an imputation on his good sense to be considered a very bad player;--and this is the universal feeling, although it is well known that men of the highest attainments have studied Chess without great success; and that the most celebrated players have not always been men of distinguished talents.


id: 30508
author: Kagemna
title: The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni The Oldest Books in the World
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  He rewards diligence (9, 10) and punishes sin (6, 10; also Kg. 5); He is the giver of good things (Ph. 22, 30, 43), dispenses fate and preordains events (6, 7, 9, 26), loves His creation (26), observes men's actions (10), desires them to be fruitful and multiply (12). Yet in the heterogeneous and pitiful flotsam that reluctant seas have washed to us piecemeal from a remote past, there are, as will be shown later, many things which, although proceeding from a culture and modes of thought as far removed from our own as they may well be,[1] are worth the reading, which do not require any special knowledge for their understanding; and of these are the translations in this book.


id: 9105
author: La Rochefoucauld, François duc de
title: Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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sentence: 1899
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  24.--When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men. 157.--The fame of great men ought always to be estimated by the means used to acquire it.


id: 10741
author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
title: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life
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  The same doom is awarded to a woman who breaks the marriage tie; for in so doing she is false to the terms upon which the man capitulated; and as her conduct is such as to frighten other men from making a similar surrender, it imperils the welfare of all her sisters. Lastly, if, as we saw above, civic honor is very scrupulous in the matter of _meum_ and _tuum_, paying great respect to obligations and a promise once made, the code we are here discussing displays, on the other hand, the noblest liberality.


id: 10715
author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
title: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims
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sentence: 1546
flesch: 64
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  As manhood approaches, boredom disappears; and old men find the time too short when their days fly past them like arrows from a bow. It is only when he is seventy years old that he quite understands the first words of the Preacher; and this again explains why it is that old men are sometimes fretful and morose.


id: 26604
author: Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray)
title: Pearls of Thought
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  Whatever is done _for_ men or classes, to a certain extent takes away the stimulus and necessity of doing for themselves; and where men are subjected to over-guidance and over-government, the inevitable tendency is to render them comparatively helpless.--_Samuel Smiles._ Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.--_Bovée._ This last quality of the divine nature inspires me with such confidence and joy that I could have written even a _miserere_ in _tempo allegro_.--_Haydn._


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  legein kal andanein autoisin autous kal dokein kalos pethukenai kal gar ho kuon kuni kalloton eimen phainetai koi bous boi onos dono kalliston


