Quote #26672
You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in...
Quote #32811
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There...
Quote #24664
What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know...
Quote #7377
Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Quote #30102
How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for...
Quote #11882
The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a...
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste...
Quote #9738
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar...
Quote #24975
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and...