3.8 · 60 votes
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3.4 · 57 votes · 115 reads
Government and Politics
A majority is always better than the best repartee.4.9 · 17 votes · 103 reads
Government and Politics
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.4.5 · 37 votes · 102 reads
Art and Culture
A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.3.4 · 39 votes · 8 reads
Art and Culture
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.3.6 · 34 votes · 99 reads
Virtues
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.3.0 · 46 votes · 123 reads
Various
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.4.2 · 52 votes · 77 reads
Thought and Reason
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.4.9 · 27 votes · 60 reads
Government and Politics
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.4.3 · 28 votes · 171 reads
Society
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.4.7 · 59 votes · 137 reads
Society
It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.4.4 · 35 votes · 103 reads
Art and Culture
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.4.3 · 48 votes · 171 reads
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