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Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven not forgotten.
Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven not forgotten.
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before read more
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He read more
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing
reprove?
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing
reprove?
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises
from words.
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises
from words.
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of read more
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
