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'The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country...naturally divides itself into three parts; the rent of the land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock'.. Adam Smith
'Never read print, it spoils one's eye for the ball.'.. W G Grace
'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr
'In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.'.. John Ruskin
'What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.'.. William Wordsworth
'What's done can't be undone.'.. William Shakespeare
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'Science is but an image of the truth.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden
'The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.'.. George Orwell
'Pleasure is none, if not diversified.'.. John Donne
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Better never than late.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change'.. GK Chesterton
'Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness'.. Nick Hornby
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.'.. Stephen Hawking
'In me the tiger sniffs the rose.'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'.. T S Eliot
'Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse'.. Charles Dickens
'Ideas shape the course of history.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'History is written by the victors.'.. Winston Churchill