The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art., Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918), English biographer (1880 1932)
The world is not yet exhaused let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
GotLink.plSpiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served deny it food and it will gobble poison., Clive Lewis,
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything., Frank Dane,
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading., Henny Youngman, US (Englishborn) comedian (1906 1998)
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives., Abba Eban, Israeli (S. Africanborn) diplomat politician (1915 2002)