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“Doubtless it was the Atlantic Ocean that carried Columbus to America; lucky for the Atlantic, and for Columbus and us: but the Atlantic did not quite vote that way from the first; nay IT'S votes, I believe, were very various at different stages of the matter!”
― HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II OF PRUSSIA "FREDERICK THE GREAT" Volumes 1 & 2
― HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II OF PRUSSIA "FREDERICK THE GREAT" Volumes 1 & 2
“Você pode levar Maomé até o altar, Jeeves, mas não pode forçá-lo a casar com a montanha”
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“Das ist das dümmste Handwerk, das einer treiben kann. Rate sich jeder selbst und tue, was er nicht
lassen kann. Gerät es gut, so freue er sich seiner Weis- heit und seines Glücks; läufts übel ab, dann
bin ich bei der Hand. Wer ein Übel los sein will, der weiß immer, was er will; wer was Bessers will, als er hat, der ist ganz starblind - ja ja! Lacht nur - er spielt Blindekuh, er ertappts vielleicht; aber was?
Tut, was ihr wollt: es ist ganz einerlei!”
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lassen kann. Gerät es gut, so freue er sich seiner Weis- heit und seines Glücks; läufts übel ab, dann
bin ich bei der Hand. Wer ein Übel los sein will, der weiß immer, was er will; wer was Bessers will, als er hat, der ist ganz starblind - ja ja! Lacht nur - er spielt Blindekuh, er ertappts vielleicht; aber was?
Tut, was ihr wollt: es ist ganz einerlei!”
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“Von jedem was dem Menschen Sonderbares begegnet, wird er innig gerührt. Ein Ubel, das vorüber ist, wird ihm zu einem Schatze der Erinnerung für sein ganzes Leben.”
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“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were instinctively, to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
― Essays
― Essays
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