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Quotes by J. R. Lowell

1 quotation from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

The intellect has only one failing, which to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience. Napoleon is the readiest instance of this. If his heart had borne any proportion to his brain, he had been one of the greatest men of history.— filed under Intellect