Quote #7890
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. [In regione caecorum...
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new...
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There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is...
Quote #7191
No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about...
Quote #19572
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed...
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones,...
Quote #5323
Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.
Quote #19815
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our...