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| Intrepid, unprincipled, reckless, predatory, with boundless ambition, civilized in externals but a savage at heart, America is, or may yet be, the Paul Jones of nations. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Israel Potter (1855), ch. 19, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 8, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1982). ~ |
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| Somewhere along the line of development we discover who we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else’s life not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself. |
| ~ Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), U.S. First Lady, author, and speaker. As quoted in Eleanor and Franklin, ch. 23, by Joseph P. Lash (1971). In a June 1941 letter to her friend Trude Lash. ~ |
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| A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. |
| ~ (John K. Hutchens, 1961) in How to Sell 75% of Your Freelance Writing, Gordon Burgett ~ |
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| Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Monody on the Death of Sheridan. Line 68. ~ |
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| Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it. Twenty- five years ago American fighting men looked to the statesmen of the world to finish the work of peace for which they fought and suffered; we failed them, we failed them then, we cannot fail them again and expect the world to survive again. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. FDR Speaks authorized edition of speeches, 1933-1945 (recordings of Franklin Roosevelt’s public addresses), side 12, address to Congress on Yalta Conference (March 1, 1945), ed. Henry Steele Commager, Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, Washington Records, Inc. (1960). The President appealed to the Congress and the American people to have faith in the planned United Nations organization and not make the same mistake which American leaders made in rejecting the League of Nations after World War I.... ~ |
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| On Slang: The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation. |
| ~ Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, Chap. VIII¶2, 1922 ~ |
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| Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron." |
| ~ Plutarch, Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders. 44 Antigonus I. ~ |
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