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If I’d listened to my consumers, I’d have given them a faster horse

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives

Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses