"A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts."

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“There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.”

“Sir Roger made several reflections on the greatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that the Thames was the noblest river in Europe...with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.”

“I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.”

“Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.”

“The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.”

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"Indeed it is a doubtful fact whether clever people are ever very agreeable ; they are too much absorbed by one particular pursuit, to bound lightly enough over those generalities which are the steppin…"

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Literature1802–1838

#art

"“Those who humble themselves will be exalted” is not a promise of future prestige to those who have no prestige now or to those who have given up all reliance upon prestige. It is the promise that the…"

— Albert Nolan

Religion1934–2022

#money

"...the Indian public are weighed down by their problems, and becoming rather insular in their outlook because of their preoccupation with their own problems. We have to rouse them and make them consci…"

— K. R. Narayanan

Politics1920–2005

#art

"There are people in this country who are the great destroyers; they wish to destroy the kind of free society we have. They wouldn't have the freedom and the kind of society they wish to impose on us. …"

— Margaret Thatcher

Politics1925–2013

#freedom