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Posted in Quotations by Greg Ross on September 6th, 2009

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“It will only encourage the lower classes to move about.” — The Duke of Wellington, opposing railways


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Posted in Quotations by Greg Ross on August 29th, 2009

“After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.” — Cato the Elder


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Posted in Quotations by Greg Ross on August 20th, 2009

“At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.” — Hector Berlioz


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Posted in Quotations by Greg Ross on August 14th, 2009

“I am tired of all this thing called science. … We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped.”

– Pennsylvania senator Simon Cameron, opposing funding for the Smithsonian Institution, 1861


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Posted in Quotations by Greg Ross on August 8th, 2009

“Age is a high price to pay for maturity.” — Tom Stoppard


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Posted in Quotations by Greg Ross on July 30th, 2009

“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.” — George Eliot


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Posted in Quotations by Greg Ross on July 24th, 2009

“We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.” — Nietzsche


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Posted in Quotations by Greg Ross on July 12th, 2009

“Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.” — La Rochefoucauld


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Posted in History, Quotations by Greg Ross on July 6th, 2009

“It is astonishing that there should still be found today people who do not believe that there are witches.” — Henry Bouget, 1602


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Posted in Quotations by Greg Ross on June 28th, 2009

“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.” — Marcus Aurelius