Quote #28629
Hope is the poor man’s bread.
Quote #14617
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is...
Quote #8110
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
Quote #15942
When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
Quote #33813
What we call ‘Progress’ is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Quote #17469
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I...
Quote #26111
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs...
Quote #32874
Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.
Quote #355
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.