"When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the honor of the place of my nativity, and to vindicate the rhetoric of this ancient forum of our Metropolis from the aspersions of the illiterate by composing A Treatise of the Alercation of the Ancients; wherein I have demonstrated that the purity, sincerity, and simplicity of their diction is nowhere so well preserved as amongst my neighbourhood."

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Source : George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”

John Arbuthnot

#Simplicity Quotes #Greek Quotes #Honor Quotes

“Espresso is a miracle of chemistry in a cup,”
“I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment.”
“I wake up: I am mental, I got to bed and I am mental, I am mental within my dreams, I am mental within my normal state, I'm out of my mind.”
“Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go.”
“Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service - are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and largely less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.”

Source : "A Bitter Harvest: California, Marijuana, and the New Jim Crow". "Bringing Down the New Jim Crow" with Chris Moore-Backman, www.prx.org. November 15, 2011.
“We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.”
“Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on.”

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