Quote #4082
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.
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The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous...
Quote #16683
We do not attract what we want, But what we are.
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Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some...
Quote #3075
Any ordinary man can…surround himself with two thousand books…and thenceforward have at least one...
Quote #17748
A poet’s hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
Quote #30888
People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.
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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares...
Quote #15602
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest...
Quote #24621
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and...