Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... remarked that it was not best to swap horses when crossing a stream . ' It is not that women are not often very clever ( cleverer than many men ) , but there is a point of excellence which they never reach . JAMES NORTHCOTE , R.A. ...
... remarked that it was not best to swap horses when crossing a stream . ' It is not that women are not often very clever ( cleverer than many men ) , but there is a point of excellence which they never reach . JAMES NORTHCOTE , R.A. ...
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... remarked upon his taking so small a part in conversa- tion . ( Boswell's Life of Johnson . ) Madam , I have heard men say that those who would make fools of princes are the fools themselves . SIR WILLIAM CECIL , LORD BURLEIGH ( 1520-98 ) ...
... remarked upon his taking so small a part in conversa- tion . ( Boswell's Life of Johnson . ) Madam , I have heard men say that those who would make fools of princes are the fools themselves . SIR WILLIAM CECIL , LORD BURLEIGH ( 1520-98 ) ...
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... remarked to his wife , she having destroyed the materials for his edition of the Bibliotheca Elyota , " Dinah , thou hast given me a world of trouble , ” and sat down to another eight years ' labour to replace the notes thus lost ...
... remarked to his wife , she having destroyed the materials for his edition of the Bibliotheca Elyota , " Dinah , thou hast given me a world of trouble , ” and sat down to another eight years ' labour to replace the notes thus lost ...
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... remark of J. J. Crittenden , of Kentucky , " I hope to find my country in the right : however , I will stand by her , right or wrong . " Our differences are policies , our agreements principles . 99 PRESIDENT WILLIAM MCKIN- LEY ( 1843 ...
... remark of J. J. Crittenden , of Kentucky , " I hope to find my country in the right : however , I will stand by her , right or wrong . " Our differences are policies , our agreements principles . 99 PRESIDENT WILLIAM MCKIN- LEY ( 1843 ...
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... remark of his , when it was said that the sergeant - at - arms should have stopped someone in the rear of the House when he was trying to catch him in the front . Roche asked whether it was thought that the sergeant - at- arms could be ...
... remark of his , when it was said that the sergeant - at - arms should have stopped someone in the rear of the House when he was trying to catch him in the front . Roche asked whether it was thought that the sergeant - at- arms could be ...
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ABBÉ alluding asked Attributed battle BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl bien Biog c'est Cæsar CARDINAL Chamber of Deputies Charles COMTE death Dict Dieu Diogenes Laertius DUKE OF WELLINGTON Dying words Earl of Beaconsfield EDMUND BURKE Emperor enemy Engl England fait faut femme Français France French grand HENRY Hist homme honour House of Commons Hume j'ai jamais JOHN June king Last words Le Moniteur universel letter liberty Lives Lord LOUIS XIV Madam Mémoires MIRABEAU Molière Moniteur mort mourir n'est NAPOLEON nation never Paris Parliament Phocion phrase Plutarch PRESIDENT PRINCE BISMARCK Prussian qu'il qu'on Queen quoted referring Reichstag remark reply rien saying Sire soldiers speech Suetonius thou tion tout Voltaire W. E. GLADSTONE WELLINGTON 1769 WILLIAM γὰρ δὲ καὶ μὲν μὴ οὐ οὐκ τὴν τὸ Τὸν τοὺς