Quotes on history

history of this quote “A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.” by Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope
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history of this quote “Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground.” by Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope
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history of this quote “He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.” by Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope
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history of this quote “Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.” by Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope
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history of this quote “True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.” by Alexander Pope

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history of this quote “Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.” by George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw
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history of this quote “Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.” by George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw
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history of this quote “You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?”” by George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw
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history of this quote “The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.” by George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw
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history of this quote “The man of business…goes on Sunday to the church with the regularity of the village blacksmith, there to renounce and abjure before his God the line of conduct which he intends to pursue with all his might during the following week.” by George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw
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