
Letter to J. Edward Austen (1816-07-09) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
The First Step http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=145&cat=1
Collected Poems (1992)
Context: Just to be on the first step
should make you happy and proud.
To have come this far is no small achievement:
what you have done is a glorious thing.
Even this first step
is a long way above the ordinary world.
To stand on this step
you must be in your own right
a member of the city of ideas.
And it is a hard, unusual thing
to be enrolled as a citizen of that city.
Its councils are full of Legislators
no charlatan can fool.
Letter to J. Edward Austen (1816-07-09) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Original:…如果立法會最終真係無工商界的代表,工商界可以唔同你玩,全面撤資囉。
Source: 胡 應 湘 : 爭 拗 至 2047 都 無 普 選 http://www.hkreporter.com/talks/viewthread.php?tid=870295&page=1
Interview in Criticism in Society (1987), edited by Imre Salusinski.
William Paine Lord (1895). Governor William P. Lord - Inaugural Address, 1895 http://records.sos.state.or.us/ORSOSWebDrawer/Recordpdf/6777841. Oregon State Archives, Oregon Secretary of State. Source: Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Oregon, Messages and Documents, 1895, Vol. 1, Page 1.
“A general must be a charlatan.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Martin Light in The Quixotic Vision of Sinclair Lewis (1975)
“A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.”
The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture III: War, section 114 (1866).
“If that was on my road the council would be like "Get that down, its a deathtrap!"”
To Ricky and Steve about The Great Pyramids.
An Idiot Abroad
Speech delivered in Finney Chapel at Oberlin College (22 October 1964), as reported in "When MLK came to Oberlin" by Cindy Leise, The Chronicle-Telegram (21 January 2008)
Variant: It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Wall Street Journal (13 November 1962), Notable & Quotable , p. 18
1960s
Context: It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me, and I think that is kind of important.