"True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone."

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Source : Tobias Smollett, John Moore (1872). “The Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D. With Memoirs of His Life: to which is Prefixed A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance”, p.189

Tobias Smollett

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“There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.”

Source : "Inside/out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories". Book edited by Diana Fuss, 1991.
“China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.”
“I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live.”
“Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?”

Source : Upton Sinclair (2015). “The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism”, p.101, Open Road Media
“From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.”

Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2015). “The Master of Go”, p.57, Random House
“Success is not how much money you have in a bank. Success is how many lives you have touched.”
“In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their parts, bones and the shells of animals, and other bodies of this kind which are possessed of a smooth surface, these same bodies had already become hard at the time when the matter of the earth and rock containing them was still fluid. And not only did the earth and rock not produce the bodies contained in them, but they did not even exist as such when those bodies were produced in them.”

Source : The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno's Dissertation Concerning a Solid Body Enclosed by Process of Nature Within a Solid,
“I need attention. I like the attention.”

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