"The language of translation ought never to attract attention to itself."

-- John Hookham Frere

#Attention Quotes #Language Quotes #Ought Quotes

“The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.”
“The moment is the sole reality.”
“Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.”

Source : Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, p.63, Broadview Press
“Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear.”
“The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.”
“I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.”
“I do not think any SFWA communication should come anywhere NEAR the internet.”
“I have learned that when youâ€™re in the right you should fight the world.”

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