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“Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.”

Artist Religious Land Poet Saint Lawyer Journalist Professors Businessman Sailor Statesmen Gangsters Parasites

Author:William C. Brown

“No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .”

Age Nations Conditions Poet Hero Confused Thinker Incapable Commonplace Statesmen Imbeciles Sars

Book:Four Plays by Bernard Shaw

Source: Four Plays by Bernard Shaw

“The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a single book has sometimes made infidels, profligates, and criminals.”

Made Book Sometimes Hands Inspiration Poet Philosopher Criminals Preacher Statesmen Infidel Demoralization

Book:Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate

Source: Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate

“According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.”

Men Made Different Difficult Differences Environment Sea Society Poet Type Soldier Ass Variety Priests Lions Sheep Sailor Crow Statesmen Workmen Calves Zoology

Author:Honore de Balzac

“All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds too much for a song, though sung by Spenser; although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet who ever considered himself to have been overpaid.”

Writing Has Beens Whole Song Pay Lord Too Much Poet Hundred Praise Immortality Pounds Tribes Statesmen Objections Spenser

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)

“What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who in dirty acres deal, Lament those hardships which we cannot feel, His grace who smarts, may bellow if he please, But must I bellow too, who sit at ease? By custom safe, the poets' numbers flow, Free as the light and air some years ago. No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours, and excise our brains. Burthens like these with earthly buildings bear, No tributes laid on castles in the air.”

Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke

“Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.”

Men May Said Soul Seems Nations Vision Poet Direct Practicals Display Vulgar Statesmen Statesmanship Sagacity

Book:The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: Authorized Ed

Source: The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: Authorized Ed

“Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the Bible. Wine has been praised for centuries by statesmen, philosophers, poets, and scholars. Wine in moderation is an integral part of our culture, heritage and gracious way of life.”

Way Has Beens Culture Century Poet Civilization Sacred Wine Philosopher Civilized Heritage Scholar Moderation Gracious Statesmen Beverages

Author:Robert Mondavi

“No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.”

Art Lying Left Behinds Half Grace Painting Poet Masters Activity Soldier Finished Thinker Replaced Left Behind Statesmen Provinces Completion God's Grace Great Poet

Author:Adolf Hitler

“In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when scarcely a thatched roofed hut stood on what was later the site of Rome, this contemned people had their fenced cities and cedar palaces, their splendid Temple, their fleets of merchant ships, their schools of sacred learning, their great statesmen and soldiers, their natural philosophers, their historians and their poets.”

“The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.”

Poet Calling Lows Doctors South Soldier Lawyer Engineers Mechanic Yankees Statesmen Planters

Author:Margaret Mitchell

“I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.”

Thinking War Truth Poet Quiet Mouths Silent Statesmen Times Like These

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays