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- Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
- The secret of being boring is to say everything.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme (1737)
- Unless you believe, you will not understand.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD), De Libero Arbitrio
- Every woman knows all about everything.
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), The Eye of Allah (1926)
- Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - it shall never be again! - Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), As Easy as A.B.C. (1917)
- I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
- Al Capone (1899 - 1947), In Allsop, The Bootleggers (1961)
- We need never be ashamed of our tears.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), Great Expectations
- No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
- John Donne (1572 - 1631), Meditation XVII
- An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
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