Quote #17824
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever...
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Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that...
Quote #24245
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly...
Quote #11798
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate,...
Quote #11847
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of...
Quote #8471
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Quote #6779
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms...
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I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions,...
Quote #8712
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an...
Quote #3772
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.