Quote #10214
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
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Why do the caterpillar and the ant have to be enemies One eats leaves,...
Quote #32221
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science...
Quote #865
Rem tene, verba sequntur (Keep to the subject, and the words will follow)
Quote #21451
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not...
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I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as...
Quote #20237
A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows...
Quote #3202
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Quote #26002
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl...
Quote #19274
My mother groan’d, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked,...