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Yes, I don’t know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), "The Expelled", 1946
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter, April 15, 1814
'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.: Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892), In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.: Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
A place for everything and everything in its place.: Isabella Mary Beeton, The Book of Household Management, 1861
It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
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Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
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Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense): King Edward the Third (1312 - 1377), Motto of the order of the Garter
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