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- The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
- Lord Acton
- We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Optimist, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC)
- We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
- Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
- Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.
- Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)
- Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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