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It is remarkable, however, that at the very lowest point of Kant's depression, when he became perfectly incapable of conversing with any rational meaning on the ordinary affairs of life, he was still able to answer correctly and distinctly, in a degree that was perfectly astonishing, upon any question of philosophy or of science, especially of physical geography, [Footnote: Physical Geography, in opposition to Political.] chemistry, or natu..
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Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.
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The burden of the incommunicable.
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Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!
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Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated--everlasting farewells!
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In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
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A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
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