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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.


A. J. P. Taylor

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P. A. MONSON Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, ...
A. P. HERBERT If a tower is built too thick and high, the weight of it will crush the very foundation beneath it a...
P. A. MONSON Forgiveness doesn't always imply a fault in the other person, but a fault in oneself, instead....for...
P. A. MONSON Fear shoves you from behind; love beckons you forward.
P. A. MONSON When the Strident Voices of Dissent loudly rise up from the Wilderness of Mann, the High-Flying Feat...
P. A. MONSON The culmination of heightened anticipation precipitates an accelerated decrement of bio-vitality.
P. A. MONSON Fish who live in the shallows can't survive a drought.
P. A. MONSON What is the world without wit? We should live to love, love to laugh, and laugh to live!
P. A. MONSON There are four states of being for nature and human souls: Constructive, destructive, flourishing, a...
P. A. MONSON Looking but not Seeing, Listening but not Hearing, Touching but not Feeling, Tasting but not Savorin...
P. A. MONSON And when you rub the ball on rump or belly,Remember what it looks like on the telly.
A. P. HERBERT To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as ...
A. P. GOUTHEV Not huffy or stuffy, nor tiny or tall, / But fluffy, just fluffy, with no brains at all.
A. P. HERBERT This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any ...
A. P. HERBERT Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain: / The seas roll over but the rocks remain.
A. P. HERBERT Physical expression and attitude have no age, language, or species barrier."
P. A. MONSON The signs of sociopathy are usually there before we are abused; most of us just don’t know enough ...
P. A. SPEERS #1 Dating Tip: Make Sure Your Date has a Conscience!
P. A. SPEERS Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their...
P. J. O'ROURKE The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on Ne...
P. J. O'ROURKE A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
J. P. MORGAN When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
J. P. MORGAN Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do ...
J. P. MORGAN If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
J. P. MORGAN No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty...
J. P. MORGAN I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
J. P. DONLEAVY To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
J. P. DONLEAVY Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J. P. DONLEAVY Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jur...
P. J. O'ROURKE My mom is a sculptress.
P. J. HARVEY I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels...
P. J. HARVEY I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way ...
P. J. HARVEY There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doi...
P. J. HARVEY I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or ...
P. J. HARVEY I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very ph...
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