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May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they...
Quote #398
Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near.
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He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you...
Quote #24346
The art of love … is largely the art of persistence.
Quote #19794
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as...
Quote #16037
He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.
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Mr Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be...
Quote #7952
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
Quote #33865
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Quote #18156
I can sympathise with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something...