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Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus’s-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and...
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Quote #4493
Even though work stops, expenses run on.
Quote #7520
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the...
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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it...
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother
Quote #23138
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great...
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At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical...
Quote #34083
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he...