Quote #9182
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed:...
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou...
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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the...
Quote #9770
Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?
Quote #7569
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who...
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Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America — that we...
Quote #14130
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads...
Quote #6077
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to...
Quote #454
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see...
Quote #7303
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority;...