Quote #6805
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there...
Quote #26955
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure...
Quote #5143
Well may we say God save the Queen, because nothing will save the Governor-General.
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The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such...
Quote #26289
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or...
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these...
Quote #6789
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Quote #22492
Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.