Quote #1269
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I...
Quote #16197
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of...
Quote #12396
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the...
Quote #13018
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always...
Quote #15704
The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion...
Quote #6460
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth....
Quote #1328
We don’t understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know...
Quote #12567
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall...
Quote #1580
Golf is a good walk spoiled.