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| 1 | 1 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | "An Eminent Editor" Of Press Baron | 1 | 2018-02-28 00:15:19 | "An Eminent Editor" Of Press Baron. Quoted in Anthony Sampson, Anatomy of Britain Today, ch. 9 (1965). | The only reason I might go to the funeral is to make absolutely sure that he's dead. |
| 2 | 2 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | "Censor" | 2 | 2018-02-28 00:15:21 | "Censor," U.S. women's magazine contributor. American Ladies Magazine, pp. 337-340 (August, 1828). | [The ladies] must be aware that a great evil cannot for a long time, predominate, without, at least, their connivance. Silence is often as effectual an advocate in a cause as eloquence. |
| 3 | 3 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | "Colimetis" | 3 | 2018-02-28 00:15:27 | "Colimetis," U.S. women's magazine contributor. American Ladies Magazine, pp. 145-7 (April, 1828). | Evil passions and evil inclinations are much more dangerous than evil books. The sensualist will extract poison from the purest page, the modest can blush without being corrupted. |
| 4 | 4 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | "J" | 4 | 2018-02-28 00:15:30 | "J," U.S. prostitute. As quoted in Woman in Sexist Society, ch. 3, by Kate Millett (1971). | Monogamy and prostitution go together. |
| 5 | 5 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | "Jennie June" Croly | 5 | 2018-02-28 00:15:36 | "Jennie June" Croly 1829-1901, U.S. founder of the woman's club movement, journalist, author, editor. F, Demorest's Illustrated Monthly Mirror of Fashions, pp. 363-4 (December 1870). Jane Cunningham Croly wrote under the name "Jennie June." | Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation. |
| 6 | 5 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | "Jennie June" Croly | 6 | 2018-02-28 00:15:36 | "Jennie June" Croly 1829-1901, U.S. founder of the woman's club movement, journalist, author, editor. Demorest's Illustrated Monthly and Mirror of Fashions, pp. 24-5 (January 1870). Jane Cunningham Croly wrote under the name "Jennie June." | We have ourselves to answer for. |
| 7 | 5 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | "Jennie June" Croly | 7 | 2018-02-28 00:15:36 | "Jennie June" Croly 1829-1901, U.S. founder of the woman's club movement, journalist, author, editor. Demorest's Illustrated Monthly and Mirror of Fashions, p. 204 (August 1866). Jane Cunningham Croly wrote under the name "Jennie June." | The adjustment of qualities is so perfect between men and women, and each is so necessary to the other, that the idea of inferiority is absurd. |
| 8 | 5 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | "Jennie June" Croly | 8 | 2018-02-28 00:15:36 | "Jennie June" Croly 1829-1901, U.S. founder of the woman's club movement, journalist, author, editor. Demorest's Illustrated Monthly and Mirror of Fashions, pp. 24-5 (January 1870). Jane Cunningham Croly wrote under the name "Jennie June." | At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale. |
| 9 | 6 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki | 9 | 2018-02-28 00:15:42 | [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. Lady Caroline, in The Unbearable Bassington, ch. 7 (1912). | No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them. |
| 10 | 6 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki | 10 | 2018-02-28 00:15:42 | [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. The Archdeacon, in The Unbearable Bassington, ch. 13 (1912). Said of De la Poulett; real name is H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro. | He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it. |
| 11 | 6 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki | 11 | 2018-02-28 00:15:42 | [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. The Baroness, in "Esmé," The Chronicles of Clovis (1911). | Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up. |
| 12 | 6 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki | 12 | 2018-02-28 00:15:42 | [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. "Hyacinth," The Toys of Peace (1919). | Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. |
| 13 | 6 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki | 13 | 2018-02-28 00:15:42 | [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. Lady Caroline, in The Unbearable Bassington, ch. 13 (1912). | We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart. |
| 14 | 6 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki | 14 | 2018-02-28 00:15:42 | [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. Beasts and Super-Beasts, "Fur." Pseudonym oh Hector Hugh Munro. | The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them. |
| 15 | 6 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki | 15 | 2018-02-28 00:15:42 | [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. Courtenay Youghal, in The Unbearable Bassington, ch. 13 (1912). | Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born. |
| 16 | 6 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki | 16 | 2018-02-28 00:15:42 | [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. "Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business," The Square Egg (1924). | A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. |
| 17 | 7 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | 00wolf Syring | 17 | 2018-02-28 00:15:44 | Im not sure what to put here | Safty first.... cus your ass is next |
| 18 | 8 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | 0s1 Silver | 18 | 2018-02-28 00:15:50 | Fear no fear, it's an illusion that you can overcome. | Fear is created by your mind, use your heart to overcome it. |
| 19 | 9 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | 1 Pratikshya Sedhain | 19 | 2018-02-28 00:15:55 | Love | If you can't understand the way I care, you have no right to tell me you don't care. |
| 20 | 9 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | 1 Pratikshya Sedhain | 20 | 2018-02-28 00:15:55 | Love | I am who I am. But when I am in front of you, I behave the way you want. |
| 21 | 10 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | 143NinZ Lee | 21 | 2018-02-28 00:15:59 | To share my thoughts. | 'Forever is just a word but for the people who knows how to appreciate that simple word, there will be forever.' |
| 22 | 11 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | 1st Baron Acton, John Emerich Edw.. | 22 | 2018-02-28 00:16:01 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton (1834-1902), British historian. Letter, April 3, 1887, to Bishop Mandell Creighton. The Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton, vol. 1, ch. 13, ed. Louise Creighton (1904). William Pitt the Elder had made a simi | Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad man. |
| 23 | 11 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | 1st Baron Acton, John Emerich Edw.. | 23 | 2018-02-28 00:16:01 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton (1834-1902), British historian. Letter, January 23, 1861. Lord Acton and His Circle, letter 74, ed. Abbot Gasquet (1906). | There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. |
| 24 | 11 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | 1st Baron Acton, John Emerich Edw.. | 24 | 2018-02-28 00:16:01 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton (1834-1902), British historian. letter, Jan. 23, 1861. Lord Acton and his Circle, letter 74, ed. Abbot Gasquet (1906). | Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. |
| 25 | 12 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux Broug.. | 25 | 2018-02-28 00:16:06 | Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux Brougham (1778-1868), Scottish Whig politician. Speech, January 29, 1828, to the House of Commons. | Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. |
| 26 | 13 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | 1st Baron Of Bury Hewart, Gordon | 26 | 2018-02-28 00:16:12 | Gordon, 1st Baron Of Bury Hewart (1870-1943), British judge. Quoted in King's Bench Reports, vol. 1 (1924). ruling on the quashing of a conviction on technical grounds, Nov. 9, 1923, in Rex v. Sussex Justices. | Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done. |
| 27 | 14 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | 1st Baron Of Ulverston Birkett, W.. | 27 | 2018-02-28 00:16:16 | William Norman, 1st Baron Of Ulverston Birkett (1883-1962), British lawyer, Liberal politician. quoted in Observer (London, Oct. 30, 1960). | I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make certain they are still going. |
| 28 | 15 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | 1st Duke Wellington, Arthur Welle.. | 28 | 2018-02-28 00:16:22 | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Wellington (1769-1852), British soldier, prime minister. Quoted in Lady Salisbury's Diary, October 26, 1833. | I hate the whole race.... There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example. |
| 29 | 15 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | 1st Duke Wellington, Arthur Welle.. | 29 | 2018-02-28 00:16:22 | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Wellington (1769-1852), British soldier, prime minister. Dispatch, July 2, 1813, from Vitoria, Spain, to Lord Bathurst, War Minister. Quoted in Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (November 4, 1831). | We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers. |
| 30 | 15 | 2018-02-27 22:52:05 | 1st Duke Wellington, Arthur Welle.. | 30 | 2018-02-28 00:16:22 | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Wellington (1769-1852), British soldier, prime minister. Dispatch, August 1810. Speaking of his generals—though commonly thought to refer to the rank-and-file soldiers. A similar remark is attributed to English Prime Minist | I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me. |
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