Book I, Chapter 9.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
Source: The Writing of Thomas Paine
Letter to the Rev. John Johnson, (29 September1793).
As quoted in Papers of Alexander Hamilton http://www.vindicatingthefounders.com/library/five-founders-on-slavery.html, ed. Harold C. Syrett (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961-), 19:101-2
Philo Camillus no. 2 (1795)
“Only those are fit to live who are not afraid of dying.”
Richards Topical Encyclopedia (1951)
“Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.”
Source: The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
“Sophistry is only fit to make men more conceited in their ignorance.”
“Only if our citizens are physically fit will they be fully capable of such an effort.”
1960, Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American
Context: But physical fitness is as vital to the activities of peace as to those of war, especially when our success in those activities may well determine the future of freedom in the years to come. We face in the Soviet Union a powerful and implacable adversary determined to show the world that only the Communist system possesses the vigor and determination necessary to satisfy awakening aspirations for progress and the elimination of poverty and want. To meet the challenge of this enemy will require determination and will and effort on the part of all Americans. Only if our citizens are physically fit will they be fully capable of such an effort.
“But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.”
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd
“… maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.”
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in.”
Don Quixote (1986)
Context: Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who prefer loneliness to the bickerings and constraints of heterosexual marriage, even such a woman who is a freak in our society needs a home.
Even freaks needs homes, countries, language, communication.
The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in. Anywhere. Is it for you, freaks, my loves, I am writing and it is about you.
