Quote #17999
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder...
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Faithful are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are...
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True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness...
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There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The...
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The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest...
Quote #9711
Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at...
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This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a...
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One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of...
Quote #27619
If you’re going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my...