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The number of 'unneccessary' errors that have been committed on move 41 are legion.
For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.
Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.
Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.
Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.
There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.
When people have not the same ideas, it is certainly better not to talk about them.
The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.
we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.
Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.
The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.
Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.
A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.
It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.
Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.
Happy is the spirit that attains to the perfect formlessness at the time of prayer.
We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.
Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
If death is your lover, you don't got to be afraid ever that he will ever leave you
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.
The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.
Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.
The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?
Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.
I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.
The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.
Moscow is simply unwilling to recognize the right of self-determination of nations.
For liberals, religion and politics mix as long as the results support their cause.
Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more.