All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
by Francois Fenelon
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. by Napoleon Bonaparte
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By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch tele...
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. by A. Whitney Brown
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. by Sir Francis Bacon
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To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets or first letters of our names--to be stud...
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No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech.
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Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end. by Woody Allen
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. by James Madison
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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non- existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a ...
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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place. by Owen Arthur
