Quote #22727
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the...
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I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world...
Quote #33016
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Quote #15406
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men...
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There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that...
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Art and science have their meeting point in method.
Quote #22654
Many things are lost for want of asking.
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No nice men are good at getting taxis.
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The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like...
Quote #15524
Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.