"The colors that float from the masthead should be the credentials of our seamen. There is no safety to us, and the gentlemen have shown it, but in the rule that all who sail under the flag (not being enemies) are protected by the flag."

-- Henry Clay

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“What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the crowd of black passions & motives that seem now a days to urge men every where into action. What incredible scenes every where, what unworthy motives ruled for the moment, under high sounding phrases and at the last what disgusting revolutions.”
“How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.”
“You can be the most beautiful woman in the world and see yourself as hideous. You must love yourself. To look in the mirror and tell yourself that you're a rock star.”
“I rather go to see a good play than be in one.”
“The darkest day in life is the one in which we expect something for nothing.”
“Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.”
“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.”
“The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.”

Source : George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.11, tredition

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