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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder...
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Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
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More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after...
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a...
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We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what...
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Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for...
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The metaphor is perhaps one of man’s most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on...
Quote #16958
Fame is proof that people are gullible.
Quote #30103
The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model,...