In Plato's dialogues the discussions are seldom if ever about what the participants have 'read' but almost invariably about what they 'remember' - Alfred North Whitehead
There is an intimidating quality to someone who is tall – especially a young woman - Kirsty Young
All cakes, however poor in quality, are quite good to eat immediately after baking - Nathan Goldenberg
The rich march on Washington all the time - IF Stone
That which represses our instincts is also part of us - J Riviere
Old people love to give good advice: it compensates them for their inability nowadays to set a bad example - LaRochefoucauld
In a divorce the yacht is the one item the man always keeps - Jamie Edmiston
Pound St Pauls Church into atoms, & consider any single atom; it is, to be sure, good for nothing: but, put all these atoms together, & you have St Pauls Church - Dr Samuel Johnson
You can see, Samuel Johnson was what you might call a Premature Molecular Biologist; otherwise he could have considered the possibility that reassembly may have yielded Liverpool Station - Erwin Chargaff
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