Quote #3172
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in...
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless...
Quote #5934
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
Quote #23406
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
Quote #2541
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been...
Quote #6387
But penance need not be paid in suffering…It can be paid in forward motion....
Quote #15786
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed...
Quote #16583
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and...
Quote #10201
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Quote #31853
There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do....