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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder...
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Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated...
Quote #13854
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth:...
Quote #20567
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what...
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the...
Quote #28814
History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.
Quote #27125
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.
Quote #5065
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting...
Quote #23521
Man’s great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or...
Quote #4302
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.