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"In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment."
By Pliny the Elder, Natural History
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"Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?"
By Pliny the Elder, Natural History
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"It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty."
By Juvenal, Satires
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"It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks."
By Cornelius Tacitus, Histories
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"I was in love with loving."
By Saint Augustine, Confessions
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"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost."
By Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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"If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought."
By Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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"I know all except myself."
By Francois Villon, Ballade des Menus Propres
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"Intellectual passion dries out sensuality."
By Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
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"Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
By Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
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"I say, thou mad March hare."
By John Skelton, Replication Against Certain Young Scholars
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"If you bow at all, bow low."
By Chinese Proverb
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"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman."
By David M. Ogilvy
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"If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it."
By Brendan Francis
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"I know why the caged bird sings."
By Maya Angelou, Quoting a lyric by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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"I think we might be going a bridge too far."
By Sir Frederick Browning
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"It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly."
By Samuel Butler, Erewhon (1872)
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"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."
By Willa Cather, O Pioneers! (1913)
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"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
By Samuel Butler
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"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."
By Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1939
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