"Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth."

-- Max Beerbohm

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“I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.”
“In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.”
“I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not the same thing and I suppose that's... and it's working that out is part of growing up.”
“I'm all for education. Education ideally happens every moment of the day for people. Education is something that should never stop. The Limbaugh Institute, there are no graduates and no degrees 'cause the learning never stops here. You know, education's a pretty big umbrella.”
“Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.”
“Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.”
“Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.”

Source : Giovanni Ruffini (1857). “Doctor Antonio: a tale of Italy”, p.295
“God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.”

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