Walter Map quotes
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“If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.”
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“The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.”
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“The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.”
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“Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.”
-- Walter MapSource : c.1181 De Nugis Curialium, Distinction 4, ch.4.
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“Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on a boy, but the boyalways rose again afterwards.”
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“Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.”
-- Walter MapSource : c.1181 On the refusal of many of his contemporaries to believe that his Dissuasio Valerii ad Rufinum could have been composed by a modern writer. De Nugis Curialium, Distinction 4, ch.5.
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“Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.”
Source : "The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Edited by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 79, 1882.
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Source : Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”
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“All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.”
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“Tonight I'm the designated drinker.”
Source : Song: Designated Drinker, Album: Drive, 2002