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Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt...
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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
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We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see...
Quote #17729
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men...
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A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half...
Quote #6334
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many...
Quote #29704
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
Quote #15549
We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense...
Quote #6093
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning,...