“In marriage, alliances and money rightly weigh at least as much as attractiveness and beauty.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“Speak, then, o body, shout aloud, And break my only mind from chains To go where ploughing’s ended.”
― The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
― The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
“At least some of them, I suspect, have turned to probability theory in the hope that it would give them what they had originally expected from a subjectivist or epistemological theory of the attainment of truth through verification; that is, a theory of rational and justifiable belief, based upon observed instances.”
― Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
― Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
“When one has nothing left to one but memories, one guards and dusts them with especial care. ”
― The Complete Saki: 144 Collected Novels and Short Stories
― The Complete Saki: 144 Collected Novels and Short Stories
“It was not merely that they enjoyed these things (though they certainly did); a man’s career depended on his talents in the arts, particularly poetry and calligraphy.”
― China: A History: From Neolithic Cultures through the Great Qing Empire,
― China: A History: From Neolithic Cultures through the Great Qing Empire,
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