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Very rarely is there actually a functional reason for a fashion rule
You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.
Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.
No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
It's always easier to spot others' hypocrisies while missing our own.
Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.
I’m not the woman president of Harvard, I’m the president of Harvard.
The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history
It is the first care of a reformer to prevent any future reformation.
Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.
The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.
What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.
I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.
And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.
We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President.
A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.
For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.
Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself.
The prince must be a lion, but he must also know how to play the fox.
For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement
The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.
None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.
There's a right-wing shift in Israeli society, very hard right shift.
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself
As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.
Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.
Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.
But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . .
If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.
Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.
It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.