Quote #15707
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love...
Quote #13139
Erase fancy; curb impulse; quench desire; let sovereign reason have the mastery.
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Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as...
Quote #18407
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant...
Quote #20603
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a...
Quote #9093
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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Everything is something I decide to do, and there is nothing I have to...
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I don’t mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it...
Quote #9393
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.