"In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace"

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Source : Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of civilization in England: In 5 vol”, p.291

Henry Thomas Buckle

#Kings Quotes #Europe Quotes #Royal Palaces Quotes

“Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.”
“to comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough.”
“Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.”

Source : Lawrence Durrell (1991). “Clea”, Penguin Group USA
“I know you have bad news,â€ I say softly. â€œIâ€™m ready for it.â€ But thatâ€™s not true. One is never ready. You just lie and say you are and hope you can take the hit on the chin without going down.”
“There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.”
“There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.”
“Sometimes the characters that I'm most resistant to are the ones that I find the most satisfying to play, because you have to dig deeper and you have to find different parts of yourself that are not necessarily the first thing you access and that's fun and interesting.”
“There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.”

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