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So much the worse for the wood if it finds that it has become a violin, and I feel nothing but contempt for those ignoramuses who argue over things that they know nothing about.

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.

Just as we were misled into untenable ideas of the aether through trusting to an analogy with the material ocean, so we have been misled into untenable ideas of the attributes of the microscopic elements of world-structure through trusting to analogy with gross particles.

we have quoted freely from the Scriptures and have sought to furnish proof-texts for every statement we have advanced.

The law was given that grace might be sought; grace was given that the law might be fulfilled" (Augustine).

The God of creation and the God of written revelation are One, and there are irrefutable arguments to show that the Almighty who made the heavens and the earth is also the Author of the Bible.

Manton said: "Sin knows no mother but our own heart." "And sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death":

The Law is used un-lawfully, not when presented as the rule of the believer's life, but when it is opposed to Christ!

The prickings of an uneasy conscience are not the same as the conviction of sin which is produced by the Holy Spirit.

He enjoyed lying on the tiles and getting a slight tan as he watched the Air Force planes practice for future wars by shooting at passenger aircraft.

No fear is unbearable, she concluded, unless you've got time on your hands and a healthy imagination.

En realidad no hizo sino confirmar un dogma: la existencia del diablo fue establecida por el cuarto Concilio de Letrán. Hablo de 1215...

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Concordia? ¡No! ¡Guerra de clases!, titulaba El Socialista).

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

I seem to recall that somebody timidly mentioned Jules Verne but was shouted down by all present.

Baudry, editor de Le Siècle. Publica Los tres mosqueteros entre el 14 de marzo y el 11 de julio de 1844.

completa con esta novela la trilogía protagonizada por Falcó, el personaje literario más fascinante de los últimos tiempos.

Pinches carros gringos —gruñó Villa, molesto—. ¿Que no, ingeniero?… Poco hay mejor que un buen caballo. Una mujer, si acaso.

it buried between the fastenings of a Frenchman's corselet. Which is actually not a bad end for a fine dagger like that one.

I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

Projecting planning as coincidence requires great skills or a scorpion!

One little girl broke up the whole kourtroom when she asked out loud, "Is that the fascist pig, Mommy?" pointing up at the judge.

Whenever a juror said something that revealed out-and-out prejudice, the judge would try to clean it up.