This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one?s vanity?the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women.
Day | Fate | God | Hate | Life | Life | Nothing | Fate | God |
When all was over at the cemetery Charles returned to the house. There was no one downstairs. He went up into the bedroom and saw her dress hanging up at the foot of the bed. Then, leaning against the secretaire, he remained there till it was dark, lost in sorrowful meditation. After all, she had loved him.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
There is no truth except in its relation, that is to say, the fashion in which we perceive the objects.
In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.
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The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.
You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.
The eye of the master fattens the horse.
Experience | Life | Life | Principles | Psychology | Time | Youth | Youth |
Poverty wants many things, and avarice all.
Business | Government | Right | Wealth | Government | Business |
That which the wise man does first, the fool does last.
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