Quote #1764
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can...
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life...
Quote #6522
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of...
Quote #18328
At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of...
Quote #5532
Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
Quote #10275
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin–not presumably because God refuses to forgive it...
Quote #2064
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Quote #13927
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else...
Quote #967
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the...