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"Men there were and men there be
But never men so many
Chief enough to marry me,"
Thought the proud late Annie.
Gwendolyn Brooks
men | marry | death
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OUR Latin books in motly row,
Invite us to our task-- ...
Lewis Carroll
language, Latin | learning
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I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of n ...
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th Earl
time | learning
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I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by know ...
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th Earl
education | learning | knowledge
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Victory comes late--
And is held low to freezing lips--
Too rapt with frost
To take it--
Emily Dickinson
victory
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I think the people over here are coming to realize what would happen if Germany and Italy won a European war. We would be out of t ...
Sarah Fielding
rape | sexism | violence
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Methought I saw my late espousèd saint
Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave.
John Milton
widows
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The literary female, unsatisfied, agitated, empty in her heart and belly, always listening with pained curiosity to the imperative ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
women and the arts
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Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
Ezra Pound
academia
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These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us.
Shakespeare
prophecy | eclipses | planets
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