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Scottish proverbs and sayings

Scottish proverbs and sayings, the old and popular wisdom of Scotland and its people, with some typical Scottish words and definitions explained. Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take …

Scotland history and future

Scotland history and future, an article to discover some curiosities of the Scottish history with its characters and some news on its possible future in Europe. The moment you doubt whether you …

Scotland brave and creative

Scotland brave and creative, a romantic and beautiful land which has given the world a lot of inventions, discoveries, original concepts and institutions. I’m William Wallace, and the rest of you will …

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud

Some people are right, you don't need to be educated to vegetate. Carl William Brown

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi

Quotes and aphorisms on love

Italy in brief

Short dictionary of literary terms

Aforismi volume quarto

Best quotes on books

Daimonology-synthetic-principles

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
Stephen Hawking

The World of English, its language, its culture, its varieties, its future, and its infinite possibilities of communication in our small unique world.
Carl William Brown

Life is, in fact, a struggle. On this point pessimists and optimists agree. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty is beautiful, but rare; goodness is often apt to be weak, folly to be arrogant, and wickedness to prevail; fools in the places of honor and the best aloof; and humanity, as a whole, unhappy.
Henry James

As far as the development of human happiness is concerned I would say that egoism is the higher form of stupid ignorance that prevents it.
Carl William Brown