1790s Quotes

#1. at the height of the British slave trade, in the 1790s, one large slave vessel left England for Africa every other day.

Bernard Bailyn

#2. In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than a pound).

Joshua Kendall

#3. Initially, 2,000 copies were printed. Today this seems a modest figure, but the market was not huge: as late as the 1790s Edmund Burke estimated the reading public at below 100,000.

Henry Hitchings

#4. There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#5. The first military-trained gang member was Samuel Mason, leader of the Mason gang of river pirates operating along the Ohio River from the 1790s.

Carter F. Smith

#6. The distance between success and your dreams is hard work.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you've got a book in eight or nine months.

Vaclav Smil

#8. The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.

Anonymous

#9. They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.

Joseph Glanvill

#10. it all comes of liking honey so much.

A.A. Milne

#11. Farraj looked at me with the clinical distaste of a chiropodist regarding a septic toenail.

Philip Kerr

#12. It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.

Jeffrey Kluger