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At last is Hector stretch’d upon the plain,Who fear’d no vengeance for Patroclus slainThen,...
Quote #8279
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and...
Quote #14832
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither...
Quote #13581
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed...
Quote #13570
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and...
Quote #13209
The art of being bored is lost.
Quote #1539
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to...
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Everything has two handles,–one by which it may be borne another by which it...
Quote #8274
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how...
Quote #8710
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the...