- Annie Besant
(10/01/1847 – 09/20/1933)
English social reformer
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"Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading."
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"Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act."
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| "A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market." |
| "Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance." |
"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
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| "Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations." |  |
"When a piece gets difficult, make faces."
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| "Figures won't lie, but liars can figure." |
"The great obstacle to discovery… was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge."
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"I'm simply not on the same wavelength with her; she's not my kind of dame."
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"We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business."
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"The Constitution does not guarantee the right to acquire information at a public library without any risk of embarrassment."
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"There are too many prima donnas in this business and not enough action."
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"She needs open-heart surgery, and they should go in through her feet."
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"I mean, it's unheard of for somebody to hit 70 home runs, so I'm like in awe of myself right now."
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"It's permanent, for now."
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| Born 09/30 | Born 10/01 | Born 10/02 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 09/30 | Died 10/01 | Died 10/02 | Death Dates |