- Pietro Metastasio
(01/03/1698 – 04/12/1782)
Italian writer
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"Garden as though you will live forever."
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"Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other."
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"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them."
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"The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are."
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"Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes."
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| "Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared I might kill Schmeling." |  |
"If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing."
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"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."
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| "You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide,' and then one morning you wake up and realize you done slid." |  |
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| Died 04/11 | Died 04/12 | Died 04/13 | Death Dates |