Quote #25531
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an...
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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former...
Quote #4559
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
Quote #12209
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly...
Quote #4163
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few...
Quote #3456
I have tried so hard to do the right.
Quote #23138
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
Quote #4740
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk...
Quote #5045
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Quote #4711
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men...