
“I have wedded the cause of human improvement, staked on it my fortune, my reputation and my life.”
Self-written epitaph on her tombstone in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati Ohio (c. 1850)
Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), trans. Richard Aldington, letter 141 from Frederick to Voltaire (1759-07-02)
“I have wedded the cause of human improvement, staked on it my fortune, my reputation and my life.”
Self-written epitaph on her tombstone in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati Ohio (c. 1850)
Speaking in 1995 in an SABC interview about a change of philosophy following her libel case against Channel 4. http://70.84.171.10/~etools/newsbrief/1995/news0103
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Hal Boedeker (January 21, 2006) "Agent of Change - Gillian Anderson , who found fulfilling work in England after `The X-Files,' returns to TV in a PBS miniseries", The Orlando Sentinel, p. E1.
2000s
Quand je devrais acheter cette vie de délices et cette chance unique de bonheur par quelques petits dangers, où serait le mal? Et ne serait-ce pas encore un bonheur que de trouver ainsi une faible occasion de lui donner une preuve de mon amour?
Source: La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) (1839), Ch. 20
Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6; Quoted in: Lawrence Winkler. Samurai Road. 2016. p. 25
As quoted in How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) by Dale Carnegie, p. 26
“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.”
Remark to a neighbor, quoted by John Lewis in Cosmopolitan (1908)