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| The name of the slough was Despond. |
| ~ John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress. Part i. ~ |
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| On Expression: The phrases that a man might devise to close a letter to his betrothed or his wife are bound only by the limit of his imagination and do not belong in this, or any, book. |
| ~ Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, Chap. XXVII¶40, 1922 ~ |
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| The peace loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of humane instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape through mere isolation or neutrality.... When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. ed. Samuel I. Rosenman, The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 13 vols., New York (1938-1950). FDR Speaks authorized editions of speeches, 1933-1945 (recordings of Franklin Roosevelt’s public addresses), side 4, “Quarantine Speech” at Chicago, Illinois (Oct. 5, 1937), ed., Henry Steele Commager, Introduced by Eleanor Roosevelt, Washington Records, Inc. (1960). This was FDR’s famous speech in which he warned that the United States could not sit back and remain isolated from the “epidemic disease” of aggression. Despite support from 13 of the 16 major daily newspapers across the nation for some form of action, the President was unprepared to follow his statement with any prepared agenda for action at the time. He assumed that there would be an overwhelming negative press reaction and continued to merely warn Americans of the dangers the nation faced. ~ |
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| The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and - therefore - to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be. |
| ~George Orwell (1903-1950) ~ |
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| Geography is a preliminary, in all cases, to a pleasing and instructive course of historical readings. |
| ~ Letter to B. Chapman, January 25, 1821 (James Madison, 1865, III, pages 204-205) ~ |
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| The true Amphitryon. |
| ~ John Dryden, Amphitryon. Act iv. Sc. 1. ~ |
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| So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost. Evil, be thou my good. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 108. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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