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XIV If you wish your children and your wife and your friends to live forever , you are foolish , for you wish things to be in your power which are not so , and what belongs to others to be your own . So likewise , if you wish your ...
XIV If you wish your children and your wife and your friends to live forever , you are foolish , for you wish things to be in your power which are not so , and what belongs to others to be your own . So likewise , if you wish your ...
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I could wish that I had been able to make the same boast as Cyrus ; but , after all , I this : I am not indeed as vigorous as I was as a private soldier in the Punic War , or as quaestor in the same war , or as consul in Spain ...
I could wish that I had been able to make the same boast as Cyrus ; but , after all , I this : I am not indeed as vigorous as I was as a private soldier in the Punic War , or as quaestor in the same war , or as consul in Spain ...
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Instead of the gong for dinner , let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife . Let us never bow and apologize more . A great man is coming to eat at my house . I do not wish to please him ; I wish that he should wish to please me ...
Instead of the gong for dinner , let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife . Let us never bow and apologize more . A great man is coming to eat at my house . I do not wish to please him ; I wish that he should wish to please me ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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