Quotations
Famous Quotations
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«Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
abusing, attend, blessed with, continual, counsels, inclination, intent, intent on, in case, licentiousness, ministries, ministry, Ministry of, oppositions, pension, pensions, plunder, plundered, plundering, plunders, popularity, preparing, remoteness, securing, smaller, The Ministry, ungratefully, worried
«Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
affairs, chestnut, chestnuts, cunning, damage, fingers, forced, guard, intent, intentions, intent on, motives, of your own, the fire, watchfulness
«QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.Intent on making his quotation truer, He sought the page infallible of Brewer, Then made a solemn vow that we would be Condemned eternally. Ah, me, ah, me! --Stumpo Gaker»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
brewer, erroneously, infallible, intent on, quotation, repeating, truer, vow
«Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his personal convenience, a dedicated voluptuary, a hater of learning, freedom and truth, without a thought for the interests of his country, and measuring everything in terms of his own profit and desires.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| Keywords:
convenience, hater, haters, intent, intent on, measuring, nigh, The Prince, Voluptuaries, voluptuary