William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Quotes
The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.
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I get called all these horrible names by Lindsey Graham, who I don't even know.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.
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The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.
