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Famous Paul Eldridge Quotes
“Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.”
“We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.”
“History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.”
“Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.”
“Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.”
“There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.”
“We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.”
“With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.”
“Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.”
“Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.”