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The ambitious climbs up high and perilous stairs, and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall


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JOEY ADAMS Of course, it's very easy to be witty tomorrow, after you get a chance to do some research and reh...
JOEY ADAMS Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into somet...
DOUGLAS ADAMS In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been wid...
DOUGLAS ADAMS In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he alrea...
HENRY ADAMS Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free i...
HENRY ADAMS The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to ...
HENRY ADAMS Morality is a private and costly luxury
HENRY ADAMS A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
HENRY ADAMS Intimates are predestined
HENRY ADAMS Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit
HENRY ADAMS In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
HENRY ADAMS Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
HENRY ADAMS Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
HENRY ADAMS Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of ha...
HENRY ADAMS I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined...
HENRY ADAMS You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a stea...
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