"In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry."

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Source : Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works. A New Ed”, p.55

Roger Ascham

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“I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.”
“The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.”
“Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.”
“You have to make something good. Just because all the hot actors show up and the money is there and the explosives are ready, it doesn't matter.”

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“Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.”
“Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.”
“Content is a glimpse.”

Source : Willem De Kooning (2001). “Willem De Kooning: Vellums : March 21-April 21, 2001”, Mitchell-Inness & Nash
“Earth, air, and ocean, glorious three.”

Source : Robert Montgomery (1832). “Messiah”

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