Gerhardus Van Wilgen
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“[N]ow that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.”
― Democracy in America
― Democracy in America
“Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends”
― Democracy in America
― Democracy in America
“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”
― Essence of Christianity
― Essence of Christianity
“Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.”
― My Life In Art
― My Life In Art
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