Quote #7770
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
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Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and...
Quote #150
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has...
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There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them,...
Quote #24112
There is only one terminal dignity — love.
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In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten...
Quote #19726
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood....
Quote #27375
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not,...
Quote #2360
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Quote #26007
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills...