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memories book writing
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them Charles Caleb Colton
memories appreciate literature
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
memories mind firsts
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
memories book reader
Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
memories teaching should-have
All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.
memories green lord
Lord, keep my memory green. Charles Dickens
memories husband men
I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
memories dictator amnesia
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything. Charles Stross
memories liberty might
If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.
wreaths crowns poor
When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away. John Wesley
unions communism china
When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad. Bill Ayers
unions degrees different
Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back. Brian Herbert
unions students active
I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
unions soviet-union capability
More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union. Alexander Haig
unions sake chance
For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. Aleister Crowley
unions facts quitting
Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible Arthur Schopenhauer
unions unjust would-be
It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare. Albert Camus
unions classic blokes
Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza. Clive James
unions study economic
It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy. Anatoly Chubais