Quote #29345
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Quote #6571
Life imitates art more than art imitates life.
Quote #7337
It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful.
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The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can...
Quote #32940
Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the...
Quote #28755
A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.
Quote #10116
Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to...
Quote #26438
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be...
Quote #27376
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the...
Quote #20397
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable...