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Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilize civilization and christianize Christendom?
~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. White-Jacket (1850), ch. 64, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 5, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~

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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
~ John Milton, Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 327. ~

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Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.
~ William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Part i. xxv.Missions and Travels. ~

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Ah. This is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which I am about to conduct, let him not refuse his services to the state, but come with me into Macedonia. I will furnish him with his sea-passage, with a horse, a tent, and even travel-funds. If anyone is reluctant to do this and prefers the leisure of the city to the hardships of campaigning, let him not steer the ship from on shore.
~ LIVY, book 44, chapter 22.—Livy, trans. Alfred C. Schlesinger, vol. 13, p. 161 (1951).

  Lucius Aemilius Paulus is addressing the people at a public meeting.

  President Franklin Roosevelt attacked armchair generals by citing this and preceding passages at his press conference, March 17, 1942: “Being of an historical turn of mind, [I figured] that probably some poor devil had gone through this process of annoyance in past years, some previous time in history, so I went quite far back and I found [Lucius Aemilius] … it sounds as if it were written in 1942.”—The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1942, p. 166 (1950). ~

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