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“Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.”

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Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton was an English writer active from 1780 to 1832. Known for his humor and wit, he is particularly recognized for his aphorisms and satirical works. more

“The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.”

World Feels Has Beens War Country States Age America Mother Born United United States Century Civilization Civil War Twentieth Century

Book:How Writing Is Written

Source: How Writing Is Written

“Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit”

People Years War Cases Trouble Wit Chosen Distinction Neighborhood Complication Warrants

Author:Edith Wharton

“I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!”

Thinking Men Persons War Interest Pleasure Sacrifice Mark Regard Folly Imaginary Quarrels Positively Obliged

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably”

War Eye Voice Flower Arms Shapes Sight Paradise Charm Warmth Faded Whiteness

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create one world. Instead of one world, we have star wars, and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet's dead.”

World Humans May Long War Lost Stars Process Watches Television Planets Elements Edges Rings Flight Dumb Cosmos Toys Marvelous Galaxy Star Gazing Saturn Quaint

Author:Gore Vidal

“Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.”

World Years May War Ends States Night Time Three Enemy Five Growing Months Battle Affair British Chiefs War Of The Worlds Five Years Three Months Electorate

Author:Winston Churchill

“With 450,000 U. S. troops now in Vietnam, it is time that Congress decided whether or not to declare a state of war exists with North Vietnam. Previous congressional resolutions of support provide only limited authority. Although Congress may decide that the previously approved resolution on Vietnam given President Johnson is sufficient, the issue of a declaration of war should at least be put before the Congress for decision.”

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