
Top 12 Brilliant At The Basics Quotes
#2. he had sixty thousand as good soldiers as ever trod the earth; better than any European soldiers, because they not only worked like a machine but the machine thought. European armies know very little what they are fighting for, and care less.
Ulysses S. Grant
#3. If you want to see what I'll look like as an old guy, check out any recent photo of me.
Dana Gould
#4. The air was white, and when they alighted it tasted like cold pennies. At
E. M. Forster
#6. In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
Martin Van Buren
#7. You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you?
Patti Scialfa
#9. In vain we roared;in vain we tried
To rouse her into laughter:
Her pensive glances wandered wide
From orchestra to rafter -
"TIER UPON TIER!" she said,and sighed;
And silence followed after.
Lewis Carroll
#10. Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.
John S. Mosby
#11. I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.
Katherine Anne Porter
#12. People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.
George Orwell
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