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- We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and…
- In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period…
- The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but…
- The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and…
- As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is…
- Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.
- Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.
- Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.
- The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.
- I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is…
- From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure…
- Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one…
- ...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.
- I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that…
- It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.
- From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to…
- Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one…
- To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.
- There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the…
- Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.
- The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.
- A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.
- Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.
- An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.
- If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day…
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