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The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
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The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed...
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the...
Quote #24830
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do...
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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as...
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never...
Quote #2194
The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow...
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If all the world’s a stage, then where is the audience sitting
Quote #16523
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to...