Stock/history

Famous quotes containing the words stock and/or history:

    After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers; and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn’t care no more about him; because I don’t take no stock in dead people.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
    William James (1842–1910)