“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”
― The American Crisis
― The American Crisis
“The fact of a man being a poisoner is nothing against his prose. The domestic virtues are not the true basis of art, though they may serve as an excellent advertisement for second-rate artists.”
― Pen, Pencil And Poison A Study In Green
― Pen, Pencil And Poison A Study In Green
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“For my part, I am so attir'd in wonder,
I know not what to say. Yet, prithee, speak:
Dost thou tell me thou built a time machine
Inside the frame of a DeLorean?”
― William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future!
I know not what to say. Yet, prithee, speak:
Dost thou tell me thou built a time machine
Inside the frame of a DeLorean?”
― William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future!
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