Quote #3948
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
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I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are...
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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy...
Quote #1559
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what...
Quote #27047
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown...
Quote #6890
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays...
Quote #33666
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is...
Quote #22186
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to...
Quote #25863
If you can’t have faith in what is held up to you for faith,...
Quote #4612
The best ideas are common property.