The Dry Salvages

Little tidbits of glory wrapped up in a single page.
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“ Poetry is the greatest literature, and pleasure in poetry is the greatest of literary pleasures. It is also the least easy to attain and there are some people who never do attain it.
— Edward Grey, First Viscount Grey of Fallodon
Mar 02
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“ Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
— C. S. Lewis
Feb 15
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“ Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
— John Adams
Feb 10
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“ Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
Nov 09
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“ Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
— Socrates
Oct 14
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“ You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.
— Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac
Oct 04
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“ Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction.
— Ronald Reagan
Sep 29
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“ No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.
— P. J. O’Rourke
Sep 18
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“ I’m no lover of Namor, but I won’t deny his existence…not when I’m in his world, I won’t.
— Captain Nelson, Sub-Mariner: The Depths.
Sep 16
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“ Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
— Elwyn B. White
Aug 18
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“ A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can’t afford an air force.
— William Blum
Jul 07
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“ The government was set to protect man from criminals – and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
— Ayn Rand
Jul 05
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“ As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
— George Orwell
Jul 03
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“ Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
— Thomas Jefferson
Jul 02
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Recognition?

Waitress: What would you like to eat?

Critter: Uh…two pancakes, two pieces of bacon…*looks around*

Evan: Don’t worry, Critter. You’re ordering correctly.

*Much rejoicing*