Samuel Butler: A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. — Samuel Butler

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

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Sin is like a mountain with two aspects according to whether it is viewed before — Samuel Butler
Moral influence means persuading another that one can make that other more uncom — Samuel Butler
To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights — Samuel Butler
Time is the only true purgatory. — Samuel Butler
Mum's the word. — Miguel de Cervantes
sic vive cum hominibus tamquam deus videat, si loquere cum deo tamquam homines a — Seneca
On dit quelquefois, le sens commun est fort rare... — Voltaire
Le mot impossible n'est pas français. — Napoleon
Diligence is the mother of good fortune , and idleness — its opposite — never br — Miguel de Cervantes
If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betr — Anton Chekhov
La véritable éloquence consiste à dire tout ce qu’il faut, et à ne dire que ce q — François de La Rochefoucauld
Death,—a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the c — Marcus Aurelius