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Acquaintance lessens fame.
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I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived...
An actor knows two important things -- to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's...
Others looked at radio and saw a gadget; his genius lay in his capacity to look at the same thing . . . but to see far...
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open,...
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are...
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe...
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions...
From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm...
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than...
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. ...
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed...
We measure great men by their virtue, not their fortune.
Source: In Webster's...
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer -- the wealth, prestige and grandeur...
After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know...
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Source: In And I Quote, by...
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organisation of...
We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.
Source: In...
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of...