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'Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.'.. John Locke
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I'm a hero with coward's legs.'.. Spike Milligan
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.'.. John Stuart Mill
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'Thieves respect property - they merely wish it to become their property'.. GK Chesterton
'The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller'.. John Milton
'The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink'.. E M Forster
''Not many sounds in life exceed in interest an unexpected knock at the door''.. Charles Lamb
'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility'.. George Orwell
'To generalize is to be an idiot.'.. William Blake
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.'.. A J P Taylor
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning'.. Richard Burton
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.'.. William Wordsworth
'Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.'.. Diana Spencer
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.'.. John Osborne
'A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.'.. David Lloyd George
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. William Blake
'The more you understand something, I think the more you can enjoy it.'.. Ricky Gervais
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking