Moncure Daniel Conway, in The Sacred Anthology (Oriental) : A Book of Ethnical Scriptures 5th edition (1877), p. 386; this statement appears beneath an Arabian proverb, and Upton Sinclair later attributed it to the Qur'an, in The Cry for Justice : An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest (1915), p. 475.
Misattributed
Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 23, The great dystopia of 1984, p. 298
Source: In his address to the Indian National Army on becoming its Supreme Commander on 26 August 1943, as quoted in India Calling (1946) by himself and R. I. Paul, p. 52
“It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“I built the fortress of my character with all the bricks that pulled me.”
From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale
Original: (it) Ho costruito la fortezza del mio carattere con tutti i mattoni che mi hanno tirato addosso.
On Coalition Government (1945)
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Fire Book
“So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar
But bind him to his native mountains more.”
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 217.
“There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.”
Clive Foss, The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption, London: Quercus Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1905204965 , p. 131
Contemporary witnesses
Calculating Clara
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899)
