John Milton Quotes
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Education is the mother of leadership.
Wendell Willkie -
I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I insist, that if there is any thing which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.
Abraham Lincoln -
Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
Barack Obama -
Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.
Barack Obama -
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
Oscar Wilde
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The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.
Donald Trump -
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain -
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain -
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain -
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Mark Twain -
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain -
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Mark Twain -
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Mark Twain -
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain -
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
Mark Twain -
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain
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In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
Mark Twain -
None can hold fortune still and make it last.
Euripides -
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
Francis Bacon -
Ce n'est plus une ardeur dans mes veines cachée:C'est Vénus tout entière à sa proie attachée.
Jean Racine -
Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.
John Milton