"Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty."

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“A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts.”

“There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.”

“Sir Roger made several reflections on the greatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that the Thames was the noblest river in Europe...with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.”

“I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.”

“Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.”

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"Intelligence is loose in the galaxy. Power is in our hands, for better or worse. We can modify Nature’s rules, if we dare, but we cannot ignore her lessons."

— David Brin

Literature1950

#nature

"I was lucky to be part of the "underground comix" thing in which cartoonists were completely free to express themselves. To function on those terms means putting everything out in the open—no need to …"

— Robert Crumb

Art1943

#Human Nature

"WHOREDOM and bastardy are defect with regard to a female slave, but not with regard to a male. because the object, in purchase of a female slave, is cohabitation and the generation of children, which …"

— Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani

1135–1197

#family

"Hegel's philosophic optimism maintained that the difficulties of Christianity had been completely "reconciled" or "mediated" in the supposedly higher synthesis of philosophy, by which process religion…"

— Søren Kierkegaard

Philosophy1813–1855

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