It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
