In my own opinion, there is no great alacrity in France—I mean, in the Court of France—for war; and, as we have had time for great preparations, their eagerness will not increase.
— from Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole
If intelligence presupposes a material organism, of which it is a mode of action, then God must be a material organism or there is no God.
— from Theism; being the Baird Lecture of 1876 by Robert Flint
Meaning, that too much of one thing is not good.
— from The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
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