FastSaying

What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

John Wolcot

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Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes, Lean sallow cheeks, long chin with beard supplied, Poor crackling joints, and wither'd parchment hide, As if old Drums, worn out with martial din, Had clubb'd their yellow Heads to form her Skin.
— Dr. John Wolcot (Wolcott) (used pseudonym Peter Pindar)
Dissension
Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown; I think very different from thousands; indeed 'Twas a lucky escape for the stone.
— Dr. John Wolcot (Wolcott) (used pseudonym Peter Pindar)
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I feel in every smile a chain.
— Dr. John Wolcot (Wolcott) (used pseudonym Peter Pindar)
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But you see-you-you can't-so-you can't so well argue about these things. I've learned that it's better that I-I don't talk about it.
— John Nash
ArgueLearned
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.
— John Nash
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