Quote #5218
Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.
Quote #32894
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
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Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs...
Quote #29706
Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to...
Quote #23712
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due...
Quote #10008
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Quote #19963
True happiness… arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.
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Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant...
Quote #20089
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Quote #13719
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.