...we were at last in Monte Cristo's country, fairly into the country of the fabulous, where extravagance ceases to exist because ...everything is extravagant, and where the wildest dreams come true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originall...y to feel apart from others. People who disagree have an argument, but people who dissent have a quarrel. People may disagree and both may count themselves in the majority. But a person who dissents is by definition in a minority. A liberal society thrives on disagreement but is killed by dissension. Disagreement is the life blood of democracy, dissension is its cancer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are two births: the one when light First strikes the new awakened sense;... The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consis...tent and true by our own standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some have felt that these blundering lives are due to the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned t...he natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude. Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favourite love stories in prose and verse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves.... And though you hav...e had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat; yet you never had, nor shall have any that will love you better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but t...o open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear he'll no...t find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fox, he felt, had never seen his past disposed of like a fall of water. He had never measured off his day in moments: another-...-another--another. But now, thrown down so deeply in himself, into the darkness of the well, surprised by pain and hunger, might he not revert to an earlier condition, regain capacities which formerly were useless to him, pass from animal to Henry, become human in his prison, X his days, count, wait, listen for another--another--another--another?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »