"The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government."

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Source : Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

Franklin Pierce

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“I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want people to look at my life and know I couldn't be doing this by my own power. I want to live in such a way that I am desperate for Him to come through. That if He doesn't come through, I am screwed.”
“Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.”
“The planets environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.”
“I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.”
“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
“I don't want to be influenced as to what I write in the next book, to hear those voices in my head when I'm writing. The idea of second-guessing your reader is dangerous, trying to please some notional reader looking over your shoulder, instead of just yourself.”
“Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and ought to try and paint the way they want me to paint. Well, I will tell you a secret. I have tried and I have tried very hard, but I can't do it. I just can't do it! And that is why I am just a little crazy.”

Source : "R.v.R.: Being an Account of the Last Years and the Death of One Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn". Book by Borin Van Loon, 1930.
“I'm so proud of you for changing and getting your life straight with god!”

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