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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.: Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932), Eminent Victorians (1918)
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.: Simeon Strunsky (1879 - 1948), No Mean City (1944)
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.: Edward Thomas, Poems (1917) "Early One Morning"
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947), Dialogues (1954)
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947), Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.: Kenneth Williams, Acid Drops (1980)
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
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The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.: Wendell Willkie (1892 - 1944), An American Programme (1944)
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), in John Dos Passos, "Mr Wilson's War"
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No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Speech in New York, Apr. 20, 1915

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