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- I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a…
- I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage…
- Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
- Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the…
- A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based…
- Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of…
- I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by…
- I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
- There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city…
- The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time…
- The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air,…
- Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?" "Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't understand it. But for that…
- The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle