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Their most read quotes
3.3 · 42 votes · 108 reads
Various
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.3.5 · 55 votes · 167 reads
Art and Culture
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.3.6 · 17 votes · 126 reads
Society
Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.3.4 · 13 votes · 117 reads
Virtues
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.4.3 · 11 votes · 157 reads
Nature
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.4.0 · 47 votes · 15 reads
Art and Culture
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.4.3 · 37 votes · 159 reads
Nature
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.4.8 · 34 votes · 140 reads
Defects
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.3.7 · 28 votes · 97 reads
Art and Culture
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.3.5 · 17 votes · 111 reads
Art and Culture
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.4.2 · 12 votes · 155 reads
Thought and Reason
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.3.3 · 39 votes · 200 reads
Society
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.4.1 · 27 votes · 2 reads
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