In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
In Courtesy, rather pay a penny too much than too little
In creeds never was such levity; witness the heathenism in Christianity, the periodic "revivals," the Millennium mathematics, the peacock ritualism, the retrogression to Popery, the maundering of Mormons, the squalor of Mesmerism, the deliration of
In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent
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