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Quote by Herman Boerhaave

“The surest method against scandal is live it down in well-doing.”

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Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch botanist and physician, born on December 31, 1668, and died on September 23, 1738. He made significant contributions to both botany and medicine, often referred to as 'the Avicenna of the Netherlands'. more

“When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And "propaganda" got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the word "councelor of public relations".”

Ifs Trying War States Use Found United United States Decided Relation Propaganda Public Relations Bad Word

Author:Edward Bernays

“You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.”

World Stills Desire Labor Folly Wealthy

Author:George Pope Morris

“Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end.”

Has Beens Ends Law Depth Obscure Pits

Book:The New York Mirror: A Weekly Gazette of Literature and the Fine Arts

Source: The New York Mirror: A Weekly Gazette of Literature and the Fine Arts

“The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.”

Reading Pleasure Letters Universal Hunger Biographies Penetrate Pleasure Of Reading Reading Biographies

Book:Gossip

Source: Gossip

“Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power of secret knowledge, partly detoxified but also heightened by being shared.”

People Knows Secret Bedroom Thrill Fragments Glamour Secret Knowledge

Book:Gossip

Source: Gossip

“Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society.”

Culture Guardian

Book:The Female Imagination

Source: The Female Imagination

“Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary; like the adolescent, he often finds his accomplishment inadequate to his imaginings. But his dream, setting him apart, helps him to escape the burden of the real.”

Real Helping Dream Artist Burden Setting Settings Revolutionary Accomplishment Dreamer Inadequate

Book:The Female Imagination

Source: The Female Imagination

“Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.”

Men Theory Print

Book:The Female Imagination

Source: The Female Imagination

Quote by Herman Boerhaave

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