Quote #2383
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is...
Quote #17557
When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye...
Quote #3971
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to...
Quote #5635
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Quote #30248
To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind...
Quote #29357
Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is...
Quote #22104
…the safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we...
Quote #34862
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or...
Quote #9164
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.