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To have a smattering knowledge of anything.
To have a smattering knowledge of anything.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
[Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.]
The human race is governed by its imagination.
[Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.]
I shut my eyes in order to see.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
In my mind's eye, Horatio.
In my mind's eye, Horatio.
The asses' bridge.
[Lat., Pons Asinorum.]
The asses' bridge.
[Lat., Pons Asinorum.]
By all that's good and glorious.
By all that's good and glorious.
To give importance to trifling matters.
To give importance to trifling matters.
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their read more
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling read more
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
