Quote #34150
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The...
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So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be...
Quote #7725
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave—oh! leave the light of...
Quote #27516
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an...
Quote #31812
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one...
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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man...
Quote #3544
or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All...
Quote #27772
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
Quote #13085
Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.
Quote #9996
A man who works beyond the surface of things,though he may be wrong himself,...