Autobiography and memoirYou will laugh when you learn that I thought nothing of deceiving idiots, scoundrels and fools when I needed to do so. As for my deceptions of women, these are not of the sort to be tallied, since when love has a hand in things, each party usually dupes the other.Giacomo CasanovaHistoire de Ma Vie · 1791★ 6.0
Philosophical literature · Political literatureThe American Constitutions were to Liberty what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax.Thomas PaineRights of Man · 1791★ 5.4
Autobiography and memoirWhatever St. Augustine may say, human creatures would not perform the work of generation if they did not find pleasure in it, and if there was not in that great work an irresistible attraction for them.Giacomo CasanovaHistoire de Ma Vie · 1791★ 5.2
PoemBut pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed, Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white - then melts for ever.Robert BurnsTam o' Shanter · 1791★ 5.2
PoemSoon shall thy arm, unconquere'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying-chariot through the fields of air.Erasmus DarwinThe Botanic Garden · 1791★ 5.1
LetterI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.Thomas Jefferson1791★ 4.6
Autobiography and memoirCultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite to mine, I have always loved it and done all I could to make myself loved by it.Giacomo CasanovaHistoire de Ma Vie · 1791★ 4.4
Philosophical literature · Political literaturePersecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly-marked feature of all law-religions, or religions established by law.Thomas PaineRights of Man · 1791★ 3.7
If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution- it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.Alexander Hamilton1791★ 3.6
LetterIt is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.Edmund Burke1791★ 3.6
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