Quote #3172
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in...
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To Tennessee Williams, children were ‘no-neck monsters,’ while William Wordsworth apotheosized the newborn infant...
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Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There...
Quote #7986
Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the...
Quote #23223
When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in...
Quote #14599
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped...
Quote #7107
Too much liberty corrupts us all.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that...
Quote #19040
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you...
Quote #7461
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.