Horace Binney Wallace quotes
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“A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.”
-- Horace Binney WallaceSource : Horace Binney Wallace (1856). “Literary criticisms and other papers”, p.340
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“Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain, And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!”
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“I certainly think that the best book in the world would owe the most to a good index, and the worst book, if it had but a single good thought in it, might be kept alive by it.”
-- Horace Binney WallaceSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 974, To S. Austin Allibone, 1922.
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Source : Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.70, Three Rivers Press
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“I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.”
Source : "Abigail Breslin Talks JANIE JONES, NEW YEAR’S EVE, Animated ZAMBEZIA, and Other Upcoming Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 28, 2011.
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“He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.”
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“Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.”
Source : Adelaide Anne Procter, Varla Ventura (2012). “The Ghost in the Picture Room: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection”, p.16, Weiser Books
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“I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.”
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“What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.”
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“And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.”
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“I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.”