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Rumor is not always wrong. – from Life of Agricola
Quote #28601
One does not make friends. One recognizes them.
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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest...
Quote #5975
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
Quote #4911
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
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The highest happiness of man … is to have probed what is knowable and...
Quote #16303
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never...
Quote #3881
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood,...
Quote #22727
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the...