Quote #6014
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain...
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You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When...
Quote #1461
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed,...
Quote #950
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry,...
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Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations...
Quote #2002
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit,...
Quote #8986
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Quote #4641
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are...
Quote #13223
If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon...