This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
During the civil wars there appeared one, which makes too great a figure in story to be passed over in silence; I mean that of the redoubted Hudibras, an account of which Butler has transmitted to posterity in the following lines:
Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.
When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with powerÂ… unseen power, without which no man can do his best.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
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t is better to ride a donkey that carries you than a horse that throws you.