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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize...
Quote #15043
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Quote #565
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights...
Quote #21286
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction....
Quote #22882
Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
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The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of...
Quote #25619
Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one...
Quote #5989
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without...
Quote #12482
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.