"Speechless I was, upright did stand my Hair."

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“Suffer thou with patience this delay.”

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“Who a Lover can deceive?”

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“Having drown'd her sparkling Eyes in tears.”

“No Beast is half so False as Man.”

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"An excess of storytelling has become the contemporary way of shrouding, in majesty, a lack; it is the Sun King principle. The lack is the human."

— James Wood (critic)

Literature1965

#ethics

"The bourgeois, even the Nationalist Press, began to take fright and talk of Bolshevism and Hitler himself boasted: ‘In our movement the two extremes come together: the Communists from the Left and the…"

— Konrad Heiden

Journalism1901–1966

#freedom

"There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along. But that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems…"

— Ben Carson

Politics1951

#courage