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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into...
Quote #21076
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Quote #20220
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Quote #4904
For violence, like Achilles’ lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.
Quote #2236
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
Quote #3072
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
Quote #9673
I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.
Quote #16802
We are capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.
Quote #5624
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you...
Quote #4694
I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it...