Quote #32615
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our...
Quote #16136
Men are punished by their sins, not for them.
Quote #16520
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the...
Quote #12956
Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes...
Quote #17748
A poet’s hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
Quote #6855
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable;...
Quote #23687
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Publish and be damned!
Quote #5340
Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which...
Quote #25287
Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals...