Quote #14872
We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and...
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure...
Quote #19904
You can talk to a fade but a hook won’t listen.
Quote #3164
Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you...
Quote #5836
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for...
Quote #31351
Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the...
Quote #29822
I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.
Quote #14054
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not...
Quote #26903
Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without...
Quote #34355
I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.