Quote #9554
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the...
Quote #2648
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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I’m convinced there’s a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where...
Quote #3062
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop...
Quote #4278
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can...
Quote #3048
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened...
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What is a committee A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to...
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the...
Quote #16850
Skill to do comes of doing.