Excerpt from the book The Goodbye Family Unveiled (2017) by Lorin Morgan-Richards.
“Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.”
Letter to Lord Grenville (25 May 1809) on the Duke of Wellington's successes in the Peninsular War, quoted in Rory Muir, Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon, 1807-1815 (Yale University Press, 1996), p. 94.
1800s
“It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.”
Source: The Runaway Queen
Patheos, Philosophistry http://www.patheos.com/blogs/reasonadvocates/2017/04/12/philosophistry/ (April 12, 2017)
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Context: Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.
“Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.”
Enguerrand VII de Coucy, quoted on p. 570
A Distant Mirror (1978)
Source: Paradoxes of Faith (1987), Ch. X. "Man", p. 137
“Nothing but a damn bunch of bullshit!”
On General Douglas MacArthur's "Old Soldiers Never Die" speech, as quoted in The Fifties (1993) by David Halberstam
