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Friday, 19 January 2018

Quotes 20 Jan 18

Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?
     --Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990)
      (In Leonard Roy Frank's
      _Quotationary_ [2001], "Pride")

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
     --Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
      _On the Middlesex Election_ [1771] (speech)

We are quite ignorant of the real power of our
habits until we try to give them up.
     --C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
      _Letter to Mrs. Percival Wiseman_ [May 26, 1942]

Death slew not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.
     --Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
      _An Epitaph Upon Sir Philip Sidney_ [1591], Line 20

There is no education like adversity.
     --Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
      _Endymion_ [1880], Chapter 61

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