They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
This old stone tower was very massive--and rather ruinous, too, for it was Roman, and four hundred years old. Yes, and handsome, after a rude fashion, and clothed with ivy from base to summit, as with a shirt of scale mail.
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.
Thrusting my nose firmly between his teeth, I threw him heavily to the ground on top of me
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work
Thunder is good. Thunder is impressive. But it's the lightning does the work.
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
To be busy is man's only happiness.
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
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