Quote #29704
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
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Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.
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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one’s origins...
Quote #16188
If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry...
Quote #32368
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for...
Quote #31045
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems...
Quote #11610
Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God.
Quote #30811
God sells knowledge for labour — honour for risk.
Quote #10564
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Quote #25973
There is a negative proof of the value of Latin No one seems to...