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Quotes by English Authors
"The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor."
"Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then he'll not leave you again. Rest you quiet till I come; and may no foul creature come anigh you! And if the Lady could hear me and give me one wish, I would wish to come back and find you again. Good bye!"
"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well."
"Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state."
"Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!"
"The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home."
"I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic."
"Read nature; nature is a friend to truth."
"Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden."
"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."
"Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them."
"That such a slave as this should wear a sword,Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwainWhich are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passionThat in the natures of their lords rebel,Being oil to the fire, snow to the colder moods,Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaksWith every gale and vary of their mastersKnowing naught, like dogs, but following."
"These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again."
"As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me."
"It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch."
"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind."
"Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism."
"I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success."
"As a result of the feminist revolution, "feminine" becomes an abusive epithet."
"Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition."
"It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead."
"To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes."
"But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways that will equip Europe to meet that challenge and create confidence amongst the public."
"A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part."
"The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted."
"Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former."
"Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success."
"If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them."
"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."
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