Quote #17926
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon...
Quote #24086
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress — for no particular...
Quote #2653
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Quote #20339
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence...
Quote #10136
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no...
Quote #25380
Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with...
Quote #29638
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on...
Quote #20046
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
Quote #28707
If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they...