Memory Spots

It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.

-Evelyn Beatrice Hall, biographer (1868-1956)

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
- Edgar Allan Poe

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

-Marguerite Gardiner, writer (1789-1849)

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

-Lord Chesterfield, statesman and writer (1694-1773)

All envy would be extinguished if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

-Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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