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I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
-- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939...
One day posterity will remember This strange era, these strange times, when Ordinary common honesty was called courage.
-- Yevheny Yevtushenko (1933- ) Saturday Review, 8 Nov. 1969...
We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.
-- Brigham Young (1801-1877) "Discourses of Brigham Young" (1925)...
By night an atheist half believes in God.
To live in accordance with nature is to live in accordance with virtue.
-- Zeno the Stoic (c.335-c.263 BCE) quoted in More, Hellenistic Philosophie...
My duty is to speak; I have no wish to be an accomplice.
-- Emile Zola (1840-1902) Le Figaro 25 Nov. 1897...

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