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- I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), "A Modest Proposal"
- War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Saint, noun. A dead sinner revised and edited.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation." - Stephen Crane
- I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- People are so busy lengthening their lives with exercise they don't have time to live them.
- Johathan Miller
- Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
- The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.
- John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
- Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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