"Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die."

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 825, L'Immortalité de l'Âme, 1922.

Jacques Delille

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“And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.”
“Tread softly for you tread on my dreams. -Honor,from the Summer King.”
“Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness.”
“Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.”
“Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.”
“I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better.”
“Does a man need to know what a peplum is? Probably not.”
“I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.”

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