Quote #461
We don’t bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation...
Quote #5570
If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.
Quote #11148
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the...
Quote #613
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.
Quote #16557
Ask the experienced rather than the learned.
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Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to...
Quote #5679
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Quote #10454
A critic is a bunch of biases held loosely together by a sense of...
Quote #16838
Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to...
Quote #19193
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is...