A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

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• Charles Peguy:

  Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

• Charles Peguy:

  We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we

• Charles Peguy:

  Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

• Charles Peguy:

  Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

• Charles Peguy:

  Freedom is a system based on courage.

• Charles Peguy:

  Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his

• Charles Peguy:

  Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

• Austin Phelps:

  Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

• Austin Phelps:

  Are you living for the things you are praying for?

• Millard Fillmore:

  God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such prote