"I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country."

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“Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.”

“I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.”

“They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.”

“Thou liar of the first magnitude.”

“It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.”

“Eternity was in that moment.”

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"I believe that into the weakest, saddest heart that opens to receive this Divine Guest, the Father and the Son will come and abide; and the exalted joy that abiding brings, what words can express! The…"

— Arthur Kenney

1776–1855

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"Life Magazine in 1945: Col. James M. Stewart stands with his father outside of the family's hardware store."

— Jimmy Stewart

Military1908–1997

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"Jefferson was not ashamed to call the black man his brother and to address him as a gentleman."

— Frederick Douglass

Social Activism1818–1895

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"He several times waged war against the infidels of Hindustan, and he brought under his subjection a large portion of their country, until, having made himself master of Somnat, he destroyed all idol t…"

— Mahmud of Ghazni

Military971–1030

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