Quote #33682
The postman always rings twice.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these...
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Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is,...
Quote #34430
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
Quote #28865
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to...
Quote #5675
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who...
Quote #29207
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a...
Quote #20000
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Quote #10242
This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not...
Quote #30585
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling...