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«The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
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«The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
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«When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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«To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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