Quote #1028
For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
Quote #2574
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder...
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There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of...
Quote #16367
Consciousness of our powers augments them.
Quote #33929
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends...
Quote #8515
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Quote #30495
Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to...
Quote #8307
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be...
Quote #5219
The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when...
Quote #20738
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.