"Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories."

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“John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by Ealasaid A.Haas”

“If you have a grateful heart , show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town, and pray let not this highest point of sacred friendship be performed slightly, but go about it with all due deliberation and care, as holy priests to sacrifice, or as discreet thieves to the wary performance of burglary and shop-lifting. Let your well-discerning palate travel from cellar to cellar and then from piece to piece till it has lighted on wine fit for its noble choice and my approbation.”

“Dead we become the lumber of the world.”

“A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.”

“Samples of John Wilmot's bawdy poetry at Pornokrates”

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"We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them."

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Psychology1926–2004

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"I'd had enough. I felt so low: I was 26 and there was an exact moment when I just knew I didn't want to do it any more. I was out with two very good friends of mine, who are now dead. They both died o…"

— Trinny Woodall

Business1964

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"When all else fails, be willing to look like a fool. Maybe they will underestimate you later about something really important."

— Sarah Zettel

Science1966

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"The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and …"

— Lytton Strachey

Literature1880–1932

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