
Speech to the House of Commons (January 29, 1828).
Turner v. Collins (1871), L. R. 7 Ch. Ap. Ca. 340.
Speech to the House of Commons (January 29, 1828).
“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Source: Essays of Three Decades (1942)
Address in Des Moines, Iowa (4 November 1910)
1910s
“But such their power who rule with tyrant sway,
Whom most they loath the people most obey.”
Book XXXVII, line 774
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)
“But such their power who rule with tyrant sway,
Whom most they loath the people most obey.”
Ma 'l populo facea come i più fanno,
Ch'ubbidiscon più a quei che più in odio hanno.
Canto XXXVII, stanza 104 (tr. J. Hoole)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“People are the most difficult thing in the world to change”
Source: Oh My Goth
“It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.”
Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch.1