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- Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- A man with his belly full of the classics is an enemy of the human race.
- Henery Miller, Tropic of Cancer 1934
- (Of Jesus): "A parish demogogue."
- Shelley (Queen Mab)
- He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
- Menander (342 BC - 292 BC)
- There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
- It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
- Publilius Syrus (c. 42 BC)
- There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)
- On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
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