"Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd They hardly know you, or if one remains To wish you well, he wishes you in heaven."

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Source : John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.56

John Armstrong

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“Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright.”
“For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare.”

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“Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?”
“Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I will have to go on holiday to Greenland. But maybe the Eskimos would know me.”
“My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I found more jazz on the radio, and began looking for records. My paper route money, and later, money I earned working after school in a print shop and a butcher shop went toward buying jazz records. I taught myself the alto saxophone and the drums in order to play in my high school dance band.”
“If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.”
“When everything gets answered, it's fake.”
“According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, and from whom our Imperial House is descended.”

Source : "Contemporary Japan" by Nihon Gaiji Kyokai, (p. 422), 1932.

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