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I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life read more
I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it read more
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty read more
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor
goodwill.
They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor
goodwill.
Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.
If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.
A mighty stream of tendency.
A mighty stream of tendency.
No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,
No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.