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Dearmer, Percy
1867–1936
1867–1936
1
Jesu, good above all other,
Gentle Child of gentle Mother,
In a stable born our Brother,
Give us grace to persevere.
Jesu, good above all other,
Gentle Child of gentle Mother,
In a stable born our Brother,
Give us grace to persevere.
"Jesu, good above all other" (1906 hymn)
de Beauvoir, Simone
1908–86
1908–86
1
One is not born a woman: one becomes one.
One is not born a woman: one becomes one.
The Second Sex
(1949) vol. 2, pt. 1, ch. 1
de Bernières, Louis
1954–
1954–
1
The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.
The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
(1994) ch. 26
Debs, Eugene Victor
1855–1926
1855–1926
1
While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
at his trial for sedition, 14 September 1918
Decatur, Stephen
1779–1820
1779–1820
1
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Decatur's toast at Norfolk, Virginia, April 1816
Defoe, Daniel
1660–1731
1660–1731
1
Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
He told me…that mine was the middle state, or what might be called the upper station of low life, which he had found by long experience was the best state in the world, the most suited to human happiness.
My man Friday.
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.
Actions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes.
Nature has left this tincture in the blood,
That all men would be tyrants if they could.
From this amphibious ill-born mob began
That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.
Your Roman-Saxon-Danish-Norman English.
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.
Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
History of the Devil
(1726) bk. 2, ch. 6.
He told me…that mine was the middle state, or what might be called the upper station of low life, which he had found by long experience was the best state in the world, the most suited to human happiness.
Robinson Crusoe
(1719)
My man Friday.
Robinson Crusoe
(1719)
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
The Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe
(1720) ch. 2
We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.
"Character of the late Dr S. Annesley" (1697)
Actions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes.
A Hymn to the Pillory
(1703) l. 29
Nature has left this tincture in the blood,
That all men would be tyrants if they could.
The History of the Kentish Petition
(1712–13) addenda, l. 11
From this amphibious ill-born mob began
That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.
The True Born Englishman
(1701) pt.1, l. 132
Your Roman-Saxon-Danish-Norman English.
The True-Born Englishman
(1701) pt. 1, l. 139
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.
The True-Born Englishman
(1701) pt. 2, l. 313
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