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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own...
Quote #1706
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible...
Quote #16050
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and...
Quote #33977
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Quote #1782
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Quote #21819
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you...
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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The...
Quote #12040
There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to...
Quote #7569
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who...
Quote #7938
I prefer complexity to certainty, cheerful mysteries to sullen facts.