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James A Garfield: History is the...

James A Garfield: History is the...

History is the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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James A Garfield: If wrinkles must...

James A Garfield: If wrinkles must...

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow...

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Marie Antoinette: Qu'ils mangent de...

Marie Antoinette: Qu'ils mangent de...

'Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.' Let them eat cake.

Source: Traditional but wrong...

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George McGovern: It is simply...

George McGovern: It is simply...

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil, that all adults are unsympathetic, that all politicians are...

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David Lloyd George: With me, a...

David Lloyd George: With me, a...

With me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Basil Bunting: Sooner or later...

Basil Bunting: Sooner or later...

Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.

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Novalis: My opinion, my...

Novalis: My opinion, my...

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted...

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Paul Verlaine: Music before all...

Paul Verlaine: Music before all...

Music before all else,
and for that choose the irregular,
which is vaguer and melts better into the...

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Ovid: Those things that...

Ovid: Those things that...

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

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Frances Watkins Harper: Apparent failure may...

Frances Watkins Harper: Apparent failure may...

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit...

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Thomas Gray: Alas! regardless of...

Thomas Gray: Alas! regardless of...

Alas! regardless of their doom,
The little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come
Nor care...

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Thornton Wilder: I regard the...

Thornton Wilder: I regard the...

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with...

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Antonin Artaud: There are souls...

Antonin Artaud: There are souls...

There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will...

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Charlotte Bronte: Better to be...

Charlotte Bronte: Better to be...

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Source: The Professor, 1846.
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Sean O'Casey: Wealth often takes...

Sean O'Casey: Wealth often takes...

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a...

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Hannah Cowley: It requires genius...

Hannah Cowley: It requires genius...

It requires genius to make a good pun -- some men of bright parts can't reach it.

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William Wordsworth: Give all thou...

William Wordsworth: Give all thou...

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore
Of nicely-calculated less or more.


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William Wordsworth: For still, the...

William Wordsworth: For still, the...

For still, the more he works, the more
Do his weak ankles swell.


Source: Simon...

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Aeschylus: It is a...

Aeschylus: It is a...

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Source: From a...

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Oscar Wilde: One should always...

Oscar Wilde: One should always...

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Source: In Webster's...

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