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Paul Eldridge Quotes

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

– Paul Eldridge

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

– Paul Eldridge

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

– Paul Eldridge

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

– Paul Eldridge

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

– Paul Eldridge

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

– Paul Eldridge

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

– Paul Eldridge

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

– Paul Eldridge

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

– Paul Eldridge

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

– Paul Eldridge

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