Quote #828
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be...
Quote #11714
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Quote #16059
Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.
Quote #33627
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body....
Quote #10140
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some...
Quote #2395
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with...
Quote #1611
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Quote #7966
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
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The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than...
Quote #25622
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.