“If you feel that by giving this title, I will praise your government, you will be disappointed. I am a fact finding man.”
He wrote in his letter addressed to Jawahar Lal Nehru, then Prime Minister of India when the Bharat Ratna title was conferred on him, as quoted in
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Hercule Poirot
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
“I am a man now.
Pass your hand over my brow.
You can feel the place where the brains grow.”
"Here"
Tares (1961)
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966)
“I find it funny to praise myself, but I think I am beautiful, just like Chandramukhi.”
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“I am a poor man and have nothing else to give, but I offer you myself”
Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of the Philosophers (Regnery, 1969), p. 75
Context: Aeschines said to him, "I am a poor man and have nothing else to give, but I offer you myself," and Socrates answered, "Nay, do you not see that you are offering me the greatest gift of all?"
Lecture notes of 1858, quoted in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) by Bence Jones, Vol. 2, p. 403
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 16.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)