Quote #9726
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself...
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever...
Quote #21193
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
Quote #5832
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst...
Quote #5719
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a...
Quote #2727
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it...
Quote #9919
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
Quote #686
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of...
Quote #10976
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don’t...
Quote #13636
Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year,...