Quote #33945
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is...
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images...
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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a...
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The next best thing to being witty one’s self, is to be able to...
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post...
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Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows...
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Was all this bloodshed and deceit – from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans...
Quote #34395
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
Quote #21237
I have taken all knowledge to by my province.
Quote #13525
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.