Quote #18629
History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.
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Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one- as the wind blows...
Quote #15040
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He...
Quote #11017
No one’s death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to...
Quote #15610
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is...
Quote #17789
Those who set out nobly to be their brother’s keeper sometimes end up by...
Quote #1622
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Quote #8144
God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely...
Quote #7138
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.