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For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot
Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.
Topic: Books (First Lines)
Source: Democracy [1880]
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The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the
morning of the last Sunday of October, in the year 1880. Sitting
in the gallery, beneath the unfinished frescoes, and looking down
the nave, one caught an effect of autumn gardens, a suggestion of
chrysanthemums and geraniums, or of October woods, dashed with
scarlet oaks and yellow maples.
Topic: Books (First Lines)
Source: Esther [1884] (ch. 1)
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Topic: Books and Reading
Source: None
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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Topic: Congress
Source: None
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Topic: Doubt
Source: None
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Topic: Fact
Source: None
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Topic: Friends / Friendship
Source: None
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No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.
Topic: History
Source: None
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Topic: Language
Source: None
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Topic: Liberty
Source: None
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Topic: Liberty
Source: None
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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Topic: Men and Women
Source: None
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Topic: Order
Source: None
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Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Topic: Philosophy
Source: None
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The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Topic: Public Speaking
Source: None
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Topic: Restraint
Source: None
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Topic: Teachers
Source: None
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