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“Quoted in "Badoglio" - Page 148 - by Silvio Bertoldi - 1967”
Pietro Badoglio (1871–1956) Italian general during both World Wars and a Prime Minister of Italy
C'è un veleno che corrode le dittature: l'incenso. La rovina delle dittature sono i ras osannanti.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
“Quoted in "Badoglio: duca di Caporetto" - Page 14 - by Carlo De Biase - 1965”
Pietro Badoglio (1871–1956) Italian general during both World Wars and a Prime Minister of Italy
Se orgoglio ho io, è quello di aver sempre servito fedelmente e con devozione illimitata voi, Duce.
“What if the song be Indian, it is Hejazi in its verve.”
Muhammad Iqbál (1877–1938) Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement
Shikwa. According to some sources, a more literal translation is: "No matter if my idiom is Indian, my spirit is that of Hejaz." C.f. Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 343.
Shikwa & Jawab Shikwa : The complaint and the answer : the human grievance and the divine response
“The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton book The Woman's Bible
The Woman's Bible (1898)
“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer
Samuel Laman Blanchard (1804–1845) British author and journalist
"Quotations".
Sketches from Life (1846)
Context: Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids? Who ever skipped a quotation, though it made against the interest of the story? Besides, how many books might be numbered that are valuable only in a solitary quotation!—as the oyster is esteemed for the pearl it may sometimes contain.
“Look at a woman's Wikipedia page and you can't believe a word of it.”
Cathy Newman (1974) journalist
Cited in " Cathy Newman: 'The internet is being written by men with an agenda' https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/19/cathy-newman-the-internet-is-being-written-by-men-with-an-agenda", 25 March 2018.
“Today is the last day of some of your life. Don't waste it." quote from Tara Daniels”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: The Sweetest Thing
