William Kidd famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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This is a very fickle and faithless generation.
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My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.
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I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.
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I have been sworn against by perjured and wicked people.
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I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.
-- William Kidd
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All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
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History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
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History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.
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We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.
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The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.
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Human memory is short and terribly fickle.
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I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.
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The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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