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- Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
- Hilton Kramer
- Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Dawn, Sec. 297
- A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
- I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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