Quote #15337
Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
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It is a curious thing… that every creed promises a paradise which will be...
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of...
Quote #13933
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There...
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It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled...
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Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem...
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A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors...
Quote #7125
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
Quote #20948
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.