“You should always book tradesmen by personal recommendation.”
A Brief History of Timewasting, Room 101, The News Quiz
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“If you only ever read one book in your life… I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.”
Simon Munnery (1967) British comedian
Attention Scum! (2001), How To Live (2005)
“Look round and round the man you recommend,
For yours will be the shame should he offend.”
Qualem commendes, etiam atque etiam aspice, ne mox incutiant aliena tibi peccata pudorem.
Book I, epistle xviii, line 76 (translated by John Conington).
Variant translation: Study carefully the character of the one you recommend, lest his misdeeds bring you shame.
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
“Let me recommend this book – one of the most remarkable ever penned.”
William Winwood Reade (1838–1875) British historian
Sherlock Holmes, in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four, ch. 2.
Criticism of The Martyrdom of Man
“If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend… keeping your f***ing mouth shut.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
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Cut It Out (2004)
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Sam Harris, “Religion, Terror, and Self-Transcendence.” The Ethical Culture Society and the Center for Inquiry, New York, NY, November 16, 2005 (broadcast on CSPAN-2)
2000s
Mike McCormack (1965) Irish novelist and writer
McKeon, Belinda. Metaphysics gets a Mayo accent http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/metaphysics-gets-a-mayo-accent-1.441635, The Irish Times (13 May 2005)
Adam Smith book The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Section II, Chap. II.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part II
W. Cleon Skousen book The Naked Communist
The Naked Communist (1958)
