Quote #19508
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions...
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act...
Quote #17893
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
Quote #12409
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
Quote #9928
In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs...
Quote #14744
The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.
Quote #19346
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On...
Quote #11765
If you cry ‘Forward’ you must without fail make plain in what direction to...
Quote #12997
There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He...
Quote #9197
One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.