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People of this world, look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people. — Unknown Author
The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language. — Unknown Author
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will. — Napoleon Hill
Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. — W. Somerset Maugham
A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything… — Virginia Woolf
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for… — Mark Twain
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works… — D. H. Lawrence
If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago… — Unknown Author
For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely. — Bob Dylan
I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and… — D. H. Lawrence
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. — Lord Byron
We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was… — Queen Victoria
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near… — Edward Dahlberg
For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son,… — Miguel de Unamuno
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it… — Giuseppe Mazzini
The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and… — Giuseppe Mazzini
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books,… — Horace Mann
For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did.… — Hilaire Belloc

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