It is the duty of all who make philosophy the entertainment of their lives, to turn their thoughts to practical schemes for… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
[Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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