Quote #7686
It is light grief that can take counsel.
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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying...
Quote #3663
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive...
Quote #12908
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
Quote #7969
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
Quote #13775
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if...
Quote #33806
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another–no...
Quote #14943
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Quote #1853
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Quote #8278
Discretion is not the better part of biography.