Quotes

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply!
That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British satirical poet. Epistle to Bathurst.

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave
A paradise for a sect.

John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. The Fall of Hyperion, cto. 1 (written 1819). Opening lines.

After dark vapours have oppress'd our plains
For a long dreary season, comes a day
Born of the gentle South, and clears away
From the sick heavens all unseemly stains

John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. After Dark Vapours (l. 1-4). . . The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Penguin.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

(Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918), U.S. historian. The Education of Henry Adams, ch. 7 (1907). Referring to the rupture with Senator Charles Sumner.)

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Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

(Leo Robin (b. 1900), U.S. songwriter. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend (song), Gentleman Prefer Blondes (stage show 1949; film 1953).)

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