“Tell Suzie she's a lucky cat.' Have sexier words ever been spoken?”
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
“They have been spoken by Plato, spoken by Zeno, spoken by Chrysippus or by Posidonius, and by a whole host of Stoics as numerous as excellent. I shall show you how men can prove their words to be their own: it is by doing what they have been talking about.”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CVIII: On the Approaches to Philosophy
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“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
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My Reviewers Reviewed (lecture from June 27, 1877, San Francisco, CA)
Context: 23. “But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. 24. “And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven; there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.”— Deut. Vii. If these words had proceeded from the mouth of a demon, if they had been spoken by some enraged and infinitely malicious fiend, I should not have been surprised. But these things are attributed to a God of infinite mercy.