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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure. - View Quote Details on Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something…
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word. - View Quote Details on As I take up my pen I feel myself so…
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever. - View Quote Details on Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the…
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp. - View Quote Details on He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the…
Man loves company — even if it is only that of a small burning candle. - View Quote Details on Man loves company — even if it is only that…
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. - View Quote Details on The human tendency to regard little things as important has…
People don’t think so differently about the events of life as they talk about them. - View Quote Details on People don’t think so differently about the events of life…
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species. - View Quote Details on A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only…
People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles. - View Quote Details on People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the…
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads. - View Quote Details on Many things about our bodies would not seem to us…