Quote #9420
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of...
Quote #10447
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world;...
Quote #9805
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer...
Quote #5799
If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are...
Quote #11279
All pleasures contain an element of sadness.
Quote #3078
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author...
Quote #16022
We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism...
Quote #3521
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it....
Quote #5078
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.