The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Quote by James Branch Cabell

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Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The...

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The...

I am willing to taste any drink once.

I am willing to taste any drink once.

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for...

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for...

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is...

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is...

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we...

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we...

Patriotism is the religion of hell

Patriotism is the religion of hell

There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some...

There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some...

No lady is ever a gentleman.

No lady is ever a gentleman.