“Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.”
Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.”
Lord Illingworth, Act I
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
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Context: It is only in the last five hundred years that music has become a spectator activity—the thought of a musical concert in which a class of "experts" performed for an appreciative audience was virtually unkown throughout our history as a species. And it has only been in the last hundred years or so that the ties between musical sound and human movement have been minimized.
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“What the Soviet Constitution gives us no other state has been able to give in two hundred years.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
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