#usa

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#everything #human #human thought #late #more

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough. ↗

— Brendan Behan

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I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. ↗

— John Berger

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Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians. ↗

— Ellis Peters

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If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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