Quote #12605
Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
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Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.
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Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by...
Quote #2132
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Quote #15803
Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.
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It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore...
Quote #6813
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have...
Quote #20621
In crises the most daring course is often safest.
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But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in...
Quote #31297
The question grows more troubling with each passing year how much of what yesterday’s...