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In the evening my wife insisted to read this journal, and, finding in it such explicit instances of licentiousness, she was much a ...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of ...
A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form fo ...
I verily believe that the great good which has been effected in the world by Christianity has been largely counteracted by the pes ...
The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, whic ...
I [Boswell] ... insisted that admiration was more pleasing than judgment, as love is more pleasing than friendship. The feeling of ...
The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilou ...
I met the first of my three or four successive wives in somewhat odd circumstances, the development of which resembled a clumsy co ...
General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted th ...
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. T ...
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