Quote #3237
The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national...
Quote #15691
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A...
Quote #17113
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
Quote #26847
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a...
Quote #25005
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it...
Quote #16967
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be...
Quote #16037
He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.
Quote #21718
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called...
Quote #14084
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only...