Speech in the House of Commons, March 22, 1944 "War Decorations" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1944/mar/22/war-decorations-and-medals#column_872.
The Second World War (1939–1945)
“Everybody has some particular point on which they pique themselves; generally something which ill deserves the pride bestowed upon it.”
The Monthly Magazine
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(1795–1852) American activist
Letter XXVIII (April 1820) Views of Society and Manners in America (1821)
Context: The Virginians are said to pride themselves upon the peculiar tenderness with which they visit the sceptre of authority on their African vassals. As all those acquainted with the character of the Virginia planters, whether American or foreigners, appear to concur in bearing testimony of their humanity, it is probable that they are entitled to the praise which they claim. But in their position, justice should be held superior to humanity; to break the chains would be more generous than to gild them; and whether we consider the interests of the master or the slave, decidedly more useful. To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing; but it is not clear to me that the southern planters are duly exerting themselves to prepare the way for that change in the condition of their black populations which they profess to think not only desirable but inevitable.
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William Shenstone
(1714–1763) English gardener
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
Joseph Addison
(1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 447 (2 August 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“Every illness is caused by something which is not an illness.”
Javier Marías
(1951) Spanish writer
Toda enfermedad viene causada por algo que no es una enfermedad.
Source: Corazón tan blanco [A Heart So White] (1992), p. 227
Adolphe Quetelet
(1796–1874) Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist
Preface of M. Quetelet
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
Rose Rosengard Subotnik
(1942) American musicologist
Rose Rosengard Subotnik (1987). "On grounding Chopin", Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance, and Reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521379776.
