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Category: Quotations

Posted on March 17, 2016December 17, 2020

“History is a distillation of rumor.”—Thomas Carlyle, British historian, 1795-1881

Posted on March 10, 2016February 20, 2021

“Desire conquers fear.”—Irish proverb

Posted on March 2, 2016February 20, 2021

“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”—Samuel Johnson

Posted on February 27, 2016February 20, 2021

“In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.”—Samuel Johnson

Posted on February 26, 2016February 20, 2021

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”—Benjamin Franklin

Posted on February 20, 2016February 20, 2021

“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.”—Denis Diderot, French philosopher, 1713-1784

Posted on February 18, 2016February 20, 2021

“I call architecture ‘frozen music’.”—von Goethe

Posted on February 16, 2016February 20, 2021

“Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.”—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Posted on February 14, 2016March 16, 2022

“Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.”—Leclerc de Buffon, French naturalist, 1707-1788

Posted on February 12, 2016February 20, 2021

“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”—Benjamin Franklin

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