Quote #3283
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy...
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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend...
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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be...
Quote #15914
Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a...
Quote #28657
Wisdom is what’s left after we’ve run out of personal opinions.
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The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes...
Quote #6565
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Quote #7656
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
Quote #32647
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Quote #12886
If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is...