Quote #34646
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
Quote #17999
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future,...
Quote #33025
Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.
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Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how...
Quote #23069
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness...
Quote #2741
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only...
Quote #24577
Our character…is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and...
Quote #23845
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is...
Quote #16081
The written word can be erased – not so with the spoken word.