Quote #17977
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a...
Quote #18889
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before...
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There’s not much to be said about the period except that most writers don’t...
Quote #16227
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Quote #2770
The mistakes are all there waiting to be made.
Quote #17773
On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity...
Quote #23133
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings but none...
Quote #6778
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if...
Quote #13107
A Cynic is what an Optimist calls a Realist
Quote #10446
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations...