The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.


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No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
CHARLES STEINMETZ
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
CHARLES LUCKMAN
Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to ...
CHARLES PLATT
I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.
CHARLES EVERS
The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to cont...
CHARLES DARWIN
I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much belove...
CHARLES DARWIN
Without speculation there is no good and original observation.
CHARLES DARWIN
The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is impor...
CHARLES DARWIN
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most resp...
CHARLES DARWIN
It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong'...
CHARLES DARWIN
...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find o...
CHARLES LAMB
The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
CHARLES CHURCHILL
Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
CHARLES ELIOT
You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
CHARLES BUXTON
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, wor...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each ot...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear ...
CHARLES SPURGEON
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, u...
CHARLES BURNEY
She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
CHARLES LAMB
Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929 I am disposed to say gra...
CHARLES LAMB
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
CHARLES LAMB
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accide...
CHARLES LAMB
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
CHARLES LAMB
The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion hu...
CHARLES COLTON
Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
CHARLES JAMES
Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.
CHARLES LAMB
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DEGAULLE
Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterint...
CHARLES BASS
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the int...
CHARLES SUMNER
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
CHARLES SUMNER
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of...
CHARLES LINDBERGH
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true,...
CHARLES KINGSLEY
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
CHARLES LAMB
Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creat...
CHARLES LAMB