Quote #16533
Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II...
Quote #15567
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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The public is a ferocious beast — one must either chain it up or...
Quote #6581
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the...
Quote #12097
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
Quote #24884
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man...
Quote #13819
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.
Quote #6779
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms...
Quote #5691
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend...
Quote #13869
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.