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The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.

For moviegoers to get the idea of real combat, you'd have to shoot at them every so often from either side of the screen.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

Boswell: That, sir, was great fortitude of mind.Johnson: No, sir; stark insensibility.

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel, and a coward: a scoundrel, for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger after his death.

Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.

There is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all Tom Jones.

Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest.

The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another.

Hell is paved with good intentions.

I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.

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Lord of Sandwich came in, but whether it be my doubt or no I cannot tell, but I do not find that he made any sign of kindnesse or respect to me, which troubles me more than any thing in the world.

I do not say, however, that every delusion or wandering of the mind should be called madness. Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Praise of Folly There

Here one page, possibly two, is missing.

Huh?—well, in these big … Eh, with blood … Eh … blood. The murder victims' blood. That's pretty—you know—grim.

for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.--To be sure she must be an atheist!

Well, my story, surely, would furnish out a surprising kind of novel, if it were to be well told.

Burke has truly said that "the human system which rests for its basis on the heroic virtues is sure to have a superstructure of weakness or of profligacy.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

The last speech [Iago's soliloquy], the motivehunting of a motiveless malignity—how awful!

I counted two and seventy stenches,All well defined, and several stinks.