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"All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered."
Sir Walter Raleigh
(??/??/1552? 10/29/1618)
English explorer
"[Edward] Gibbon is an ugly, affected, disgusting fellow and poisons our literary club for me. I class him among infidel wasps and venomous insects."
James Boswell
(10/29/1740 05/19/1795)
Scottish biographer
"Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding."
Queen Marie of Romania
(10/29/1875 07/10/1938)
Romanian royalty
"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made."
Jean Giraudoux
(10/29/1882 01/31/1944)
French writer
"If the day should ever come when we [the Nazis] must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction."
Paul Joseph Goebbels
(10/29/1897 05/01/1945)
German propagandist
"There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism."
Henry George
(09/02/1839 10/29/1897)
US economist
"There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright but large, not only large but truly democratic... that will expose all fraud and sham; fight all public evils and abuses; that will serve and battle for the people with earnest sincerity."
Joseph Pulitzer
(04/10/1847 10/29/1911)
Hungarian journalist and prize
, on assuming proprietorship of the New York World
"People who commit adultery must die. Everyone knows that. Any movie tells you that!"
Richard Dreyfuss
(10/29/1947 )
US actor
"It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick."
Adolphe Menjou
(02/18/1890 10/29/1963)
US actor
"I feel my best when I'm happy."
Winona Ryder
(10/29/1971 )
US actor (from Petaluma, CA)
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