"Millions for defense but not a cent for tribute."

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Source : Toast at dinner for John Marshall, Philadelphia, Pa., 18 June 1798.

Robert Goodloe Harper

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“I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.”

Source : Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner
“I started harmonica at the age of four, and when I was 12 I started the guitar. Then I played at school.”
“I don't get jet lagged that much. I'm so used to traveling and being in different places every day that I can sleep anywhere.”
“I am who I am and thereâ€™s nothing wrong with that. The days continue like they always have. They bring neither excessive desire nor despair. Nothingâ€™s changed. Yet Iâ€™m overwhelmed with a sense of fulfillment. Iâ€™m right here. Youâ€™re over there. If Iâ€™m your savior, then youâ€™re mine”
“I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter. Far more important is that they be a good human being.”
“Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.”
“On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.”
“But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.”

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