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I am! yet what I am none cares or knows,
My friends forsake me like a memory lost;
I am the self-consumer of my woes....
John Clare, c1845
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
Not that he had anything against belief. People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld, Book 7, Pyramids (1989)
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
We easily forget our faults when they are known only to ourselves.
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[Nous oublions aisΓ©ment nos fautes lorsquβelles ne sont sues que de nous.]
FranΓ§ois VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
RΓ©flexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ΒΆ196 (1665-1678) [tr. Stevens (1939)]
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Β Β Β One cause which is not always observed of the insufficiency of riches is, that they very seldom make their owner rich. To be rich is to have more than is desired, and more than is wanted; to have something which may be spent without reluctance, and scattered without care, with which the sudden demands of desire may be gratified, the casual freaks of fancy indulged, the unexpected opportunities of benevolence improved.
Β Β Β Avarice is always poor, but poor by her own fault.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-09-08), The Idler, No. 73
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, β never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1881-05-01) βThe Great Infidels,β Boothβs Theater, New York
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
No considerate man can approach marriage without deep concern. I, he will think, who have made hitherto so poor a business of my own life, am now about to embrace the responsibility of anotherβs. Henceforth, there shall be two to suffer from my faults; and that other is the one whom I most desire to shield from suffering.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850β1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), βReflections and Remarks on Human Life,β Β§ 10.1 βMarriageβ
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Custom is custom; it is built of brass, boiler iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Essay (1906), βThe Gorky Incident,β Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)]
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For the complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquility of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English novelist and playwright [William Somerset Maugham]
The Summing Up, ch. 73 (1938)
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A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
If I were to attempt to put my political philosophy tonight into a single phrase, it would be this: Trust the people. Trust their good sense, their decency, their fortitude, their faith. Trust them with the facts. Trust them with the great decisions. And fix as our guiding star the passion to create a society where people can fulfill their own best selves β where no American is held down by race or color, by worldly condition or social status, from gaining what his character earns him as an American citizen, as a human being and as a child of God.
Adlai Stevenson (1900β1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1956-09-13), βDemocratic and Republican Administrations,β Pennsylvania Farm Show, Harrisburg
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