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The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country. ↗

— James Wolfe

#blood #bought #cheerfully #conquer #conquest

When I get married it will be for keeps. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#get married #i #keeps #married #will

No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#buy #enough #his #man #past

You don't teach information in a writing workshop. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#teach #workshop #writing #you

We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty? ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#any #being #collectively #done #guilty

I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen. ↗

— Donald Wolfit

#finest #i #performance #quite #say

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#chooses #evil #good #happiness #man

I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#anything #big #career #distorted #enlarging

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#aspires #believes #dangerous #example #greater

I just always gravitate toward the kind of characters or people that maybe you don't want to talk to for a long time at a party, but you do like to watch what they're doing. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#characters #doing #gravitate #i #just