Quote #19129
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to...
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of...
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only...
Quote #30671
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting...
Quote #21875
Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain....
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To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be...
Quote #2253
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Quote #34150
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The...
Quote #34486
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate...
Quote #26591
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The...