Quote #759
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
Quote #391
The sins of the fathers are often visited upon the sons-in-law.
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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for...
Quote #27339
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we...
Quote #4526
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the...
Quote #336
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you...
Quote #27440
Statistics The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw...
Quote #16867
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that...
Quote #19724
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end...
Quote #19108
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in...