479 books
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428 voters
“Il nous faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!"
(We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring!)
[Assemblée legislative, Paris; Sept. 2, 1792]”
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(We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring!)
[Assemblée legislative, Paris; Sept. 2, 1792]”
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“Discretion,” said Fen with great complacency, “is my middle name.”
“I dare say. But very few people use their middle names.”
― Beware of the Trains
“I dare say. But very few people use their middle names.”
― Beware of the Trains
“If Grandpa Simpson wrote a book, and someone took out all the funny bits, this would be that book.”
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“The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don’t mean merely that controversies are acrimonious. They ought to be that when they are on serious subjects. I mean that almost nobody seems to feel that an opponent deserves a fair hearing or that the objective truth matters as long as you can score a neat debating point.”
― As I Please: 1943-1945
― As I Please: 1943-1945
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