Quote #11124
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
Quote #9420
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
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Life can’t ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for...
Quote #31697
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck...
Quote #7828
When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
Quote #27343
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.
Quote #6544
Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person,...
Quote #12166
One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.
Quote #29717
The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its...
Quote #7793
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.