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Comment on Shelley, Percy Bysshe - A Declaration of Rights, ch. 12 (1812)

Dave — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:21:33 +0000

Well, that’s not quite what the quotation says, but interesting nonetheless.

Comment on Shelley, Percy Bysshe - A Declaration of Rights, ch. 12 (1812)

Thos003 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:16:34 +0000

“drop of liquor on a scorpion, will sting itself to death.” Just so you know that is false. http://bit.ly/98xgMX But despite this being a falsehood the myth sounds so cool that it continues to get retweeted.

Comment on Hill, Napoleon - Think and Grow Rich, ch. 2 (1938)

Tosh — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:44:59 +0000

That’s so true!
I love this book!

Comment on Burke, Edmund - Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

Dave — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:20:21 +0000

You are correct; corrected to Anglo-Irish, since he spent much of his adult life in England, and was buried there. (Actually, Anglo-Irish would structurally refer to an English person who moved to Ireland — I’m not sure how to put together the reverse, short of “Irish-born English.”)

Thanks, John.

Comment on Burke, Edmund - Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

john hearne — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:42:15 +0000

Burke was Irish, not British

Comment on Steinbeck, John - Nobel prize acceptance speech (10 Dec 1962)

Dave — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:49:06 +0000

The full text is given in the link above.

Comment on Steinbeck, John - Nobel prize acceptance speech (10 Dec 1962)

cheri johnson — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:50:25 +0000

Please let me read the full text of Steinbeck’s acceptance speech.

Comment on Seneca the Younger - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, “On Obedience to the Universal Will”

Fuller, Thomas (1654) - Gnomologia, #1274 (1732) | WIST — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:50:05 +0000

[...] Destiny leads the willing but drags the unwilling. Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English writer, physicianGnomologia, #1274 (1732) See Seneca the Younger. [...]

Comment on Leland, John - A Chronicle of His Time in Virginia (1845)

Larche Osborne-Simmons — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:02:09 +0000

I wish all Baptists ministers were so wise. Unlike modern fundamentalists, Leland seems to have understood the role religion should play in statecraft.

Comment on Fuller, Thomas (1608) - A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine, ii. xi (1650)

Dr MaxGammon — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:15:29 +0000

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine

An appropriate quotation for all times and all of us, but perhaps especially appropriate on the the day when it is announced that Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Comment on Luther, Martin - (Attributed)

Unblogged Bits for Friday, 11 September 2009 | ***Dave Does the Blog — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:01:36 +0000

[...] Luther, Martin — (Attributed) – Salud! [...]

Comment on Ingersoll, Robert Green - “The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child” (1877)

Unblogged Bits for Friday, 28 August 2009 | ***Dave Does the Blog — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:02:26 +0000

[...] Ingersoll, Robert Green — “The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child” (1877): Dave [...]

Comment on Churchill, Winston - Speech, House of Commons (11 Nov. 1947)

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:15:39 +0000

[...] See also Churchill. [...]

Comment on Twain, Mark - Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar (1894)

CO: Beta comments from other people | Blog of Heroes — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:39:43 +0000

[...] Mark Twain put it … It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horse [...]

Comment on Wesley, John - Sermon #39, “Catholic Spirit,” I.6

Kevin Woolsey — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:38:16 +0000

This man knew how to advertise and pursuade.