“"You have suffered many wounds." […] "It shows how many skilled swordsmen there are."”
ibid
Drenai series, Waylander II: In the Realm of the Wolf
“How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer’s days!”
No Wit, no Help, like a Woman's (1611), Act ii. Sc. 1.
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Elvis and Gladys (1985), Ch. 5 : A Romance, p. 55
Context: What is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive — and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.
“Ever since I was born I have never been involved in corruption and I will never be corrupt.”
Jacob Zuma
(1942) 4th President of South Africa
From the steps of the Johannesburg Public Library after his rape acquittal on 8 May 2006, Manto: Media sensationalised Zuma's shower statement http://mg.co.za/article/2006-05-11-manto-media-sensationalised-zumas-shower-statement, M&G, 11 May 2006
The Director, in Ch 10
Brave New World (1932)
“How many realms since Troy have been o'erthrown?
How many nations captive led? How oft
Has Fortune up and down throughout the world
Changed slavery for dominion?”
Quot post excidium Trojae sunt eruta regna?
Quot capti populi? quoties Fortuna per orbem
Servitium imperiumque tulit, varieque revertit?
Book I, line 506, as reported in Dictionary of Quotations (classical) (1897) by T. B. Harbottle, p. 248.
Astronomica
Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 317
“We're going to have to retire the word mindfulness. It's been hopelessly corrupted in English.”
Ken McLeod
(1948) Canadian lama
Money and Value http://www.unfetteredmind.org/money-value-life-4#sect6. Unfettered Mind http://www.unfetteredmind.org. (2007-12-02) (Topic: Practice)
“How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!”
Edgar Allan Poe
(1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)