#ra

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#grandfather #had #laborer #only #patriotic

To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#act #alarm #am #captain #department

Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#friday #friday night #house #i #junior

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans. ↗

— Barney Frank

#democrats #disagree #going #i #most

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw. ↗

— Humphry Davy

#collection #contain #ever #finest #frames

The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils. ↗

— George Mercer Dawson

#fossils #found #fragments #had #recognisable

I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell. ↗

— Tom Holland

#contrast #evil #good-and-evil #heaven-and-hell #observation

But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification. ↗

— Thomas Day

#awful #britain #equally #favourable #her

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#because #blame #books #built #even

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#every #journalists #most #poll #shows