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He is winding the watch of his wit by and by it will strike.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure...
Quote #17539
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to...
Quote #14658
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist...
Quote #12688
Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though...
Quote #8553
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought...
Quote #13042
Help thyself, and God will help thee.
Quote #13575
To your friends, you’re like a trash bag they’ll use you for a little...
Quote #18609
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and...