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‘Where shall I begin, please your Majesty’ he asked. ‘Begin at the beginning,’ the...
Quote #13225
Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church.
Quote #11892
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches,...
Quote #252
In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
Quote #21246
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor...
Quote #19701
Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.
Quote #11664
We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the...
Quote #22739
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that...
Quote #3990
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.