The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent

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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is...

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is...

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for...

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for...

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a...

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a...

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Even a very small degree of hope is enough to cause the birth of love.

Even a very small degree of hope is enough to cause the birth of love.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are...

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are...

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable...

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable...

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the...

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the...

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a...

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a...

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman,...

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman,...

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

A character is a completely fashioned will.