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- So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
- Isodore Duncan
- The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
- Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC)
- And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
(Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.) - Alcuin (732 AD - 804 AD)
- Let them hate so long as they fear.
(Oderint Dum Metuant) - Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC), Fragment
- The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
- Gelett Burgess (1866 - 1951)
- Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
- James Bridie
- The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can.
- Albertano of Brescia
- A precedent embalms a principle.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
- William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
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