Quote #22103
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a...
Quote #2395
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with...
Quote #11855
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us;...
Quote #12071
The stability of the whole is guaranteed by the instability of its parts.
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The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
Quote #13850
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is...
Quote #2129
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
Quote #419
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.