“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.”

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract

2010s, 2016 Democratic National Convention (2016)

2013, Cape Town University Address (June 2013)

Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 123.

2015-09-16
CNN REAGAN LIBRARY DEBATE: Later Debate Full Transcript
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http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2015/09/16/cnn-reagan-library-debate-later-debate-full-transcript/
2010s

Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (1958), p. 14

Boulter's Monument. (Supposed to have been inserted by Dr. Johnson, 1745.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Boulter's Monument (1745). At Madden's request, the poem was revised for publication by Samuel Johnson, some authorities hold that and that this line was an insertion by Johnson; however Johnson's own account was that he had merely "blotted out" unnecessary lines of the poem. See James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies (1791) p. 175. Compare: "Words are women, deeds are men", George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum.

Source: Fairest