She did not expect success, though she knew her own worth. Her writing career was not a usual one. She began publishing late in her life, around sixty, and in twenty years she published nine novels, t...
She had a kind heart, though that is not of much use when it comes to the matter of self-preservation.
That was what he wanted to tell his audience at Cambridge. He divided classical satirists into two classes—fierce men starving in garrets, and renouncing popularity and circulation to dwell in tubs, a...
Wat ik het meest in mensen waardeer is de enige deugd die ze met goden en dieren gemeen hebben, en die je daarom eigenlijk geen deugd kunt noemen. Ik heb het over moed.
When they married he wouldn’t be able to go on where he was. On the other hand, if she wouldn’t have him, he didn’t see that he would be able to go on at all.
To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.
Algebra, like laudanum, deadens pain, Fritz wrote.
The professor urged upon Fred that to base one's calculations on unobservables - such as God, such as the soul, such as the atom, such as the elementary particle - was nothing more than a comforting w...
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