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the "sum of virtue," Hobbes writes, "is to be sociable with them that will be sociable, and formidable to them that will not."1

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.

I'm glad of any political freedom they give me, but what I'm interested in is not political freedom. I'm interested in the liberties I take.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure. TACITUS, c. A.D. 55-120

Space we can recover, time never. Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821

Anger is the most destructive of emotional responses, for it clouds your vision the most. It

Dodd was able to point out that no one would have crucified an itinerant preacher who went around encouraging people with general moral principles.

No, I can't stop for sonnets; my mother is sitting up. I'll look you up tomorrow, sometime or other, and do for goodness' sake try and realise that you're a pestilential scourge, or your find yourself in a most awful fix. Good-night!

was absorbed and deaf to the world; alternately scribbling and sucking the top of his pencil. It

Rat was talking so seriously, he kept saying to himself mutinously, 'But it WAS fun, though! Awful fun!' and making strange suppressed noises inside him, k-i-ck-ck-ck, and poop-p-p, and other sounds resembling stifled snorts, or

I don't know that I think so VERY much of that little song, Rat,' observed the Mole cautiously.

all that distinguishes the many-pocketed animal, the lord of creation, from the inferior one-pocketed or no-pocketed productions that hop or trip about permissively

side. "Hold up!" said an elderly rabbit at the gap. "Sixpence for the

When Ranke argued that the external relations, of states determine their internal conditions, his argument had considerable cogency.

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it. It's very zingy, I agreed.

I would rather have written the hymns of Wesley's than to have the fame of all the kings that ever sat on earth; it is more glorious, it has more power in it.

Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place.

Johnson was a widow with long white hair worn in a knot at the back of her head

cupid, get your worthless ass down here

I challenge that loose-assed prick, otherwise known as Moss, to a fight.

Ye know, Cork Courrant-Porky Implant. Tis a jest Ian

why did he have a small army of kilted Highlanders? Where on earth did a person acquire such an army? Did he place an ad in the paper—Wanted: small army of kilted Highlanders?