“In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats”

To Thomas Wentworth, cited by Luca Codignola in The Coldest Harbour of the Land (Québec, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988), p. 43.
Context: [B]eing bound for a long Journey to a Place which I have had a long Desire to visit, and have now the Opportunity and Leave to do: It is Newfoundland I mean, which imports me more than in Curiosity only to see; for I must either go and settle it in a better Order than it is, or else give it over, and lose all the Charges I have been at hitherto for other Men to build their Fortunes upon. And I had rather be esteemed a Fool for some by the Hazard of one Month's journey, than to prove myself one certainly for six Years by past, if the Business be now lost for some want of a little Pains and Care.

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

Second term as Prime Minister <br class="br">Source: Radio Interview for BBC Radio 3 (17 December 1985) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105934

Source: Believing in God - Member Book

Book the First
Sordello (1840)

The Reader's Digest, Volume 121 (1982), p. 118.
Attributed

Taking Chances (1944)

1.10 On the Misguided Romanticisation of Feline Psychopaths https://www.hedweb.com/hedethic/hedon1.htm#feline <br class="br"> The Hedonistic Imperative https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/514875 (1995)