"This town of Sheffield is very populous and large, the streets narrow, and the houses dark and black, occasioned by the continued smoke of the forges, which are always at work: Here they make all sorts of cutlery-ware, but especially that of edged-tools, knives, razors, axes, &. and nails"

-- Daniel Defoe

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“I have gotten where I am today only because I have persisted against all odds for a long time.”
“It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.”
“I'm 99 today and I'll be 100 tomorrow. It's another day.”
“No man is the wiser for his learning”
“I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.”
“The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.”
“If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.”

Source : "Can Jean-François Copé save France from anti-Muslim extremism?" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2011.
“In summer, the song sings itself.”

Source : William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.349, New Directions Publishing

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