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Cicero
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. (On relations with the US)
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Stephen Leacock
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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Harlan Ellison.
The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Francis Bacon
Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
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G. M. Trevelyan
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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William Shakespeare
Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy...
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Roosevelt, Eleanor
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
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Thomas Browne
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
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Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
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George V, last words, 21 January 1936.
How is the Empire?
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Confucius
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.
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