Quote #9828
Whatever happens at all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if...
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Quote #9829
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your...
Quote #9814
Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage. +20
Quote #9830
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. +10
Quote #9815
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self,...
Quote #9816
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. +3-3
Quote #9817
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence–beginning with one’s own. +40
Quote #9818
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of...
Quote #9819
A friend in power is a friend lost. +4-1
Quote #9820
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean,...