To convince any man against his will is hard, but to please him against his will is justly pronounced by Dryden to be above the reach of human abilities.
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No. 93.Samuel Johnson
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No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
James Madison
He pronounced the letter R (littera canina) very hard – a certaine signe of a Satyricall Witt.
John Aubrey
"Reach for the stars. Although you will never touch them, if you reach hard enough, you will find that you get a little star dust on you in the process."
Norman Borlaug
We are working hard to convince both the Indians and the Pakis there's a way to deal with their problems without going to war.
George W. Bush
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