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Man may be considered as a superior species of animal who produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives. Hippilyte Taine

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. Richard E. Byrd

Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and...

Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division. Jan Ehrenwald.

Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better...

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. Orson Welles

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry. L. Schefer