- James Montgomery
(11/04/1771 – 04/30/1854)
Scottish writer, on his deathbed, when asked how he was
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"Hovering between wife and death."
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| "I have no riches but my thoughts, yet these are wealth enough for me." |  |
"Above all keep your colours fresh!"
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"In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs."
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"I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat."
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"What luck for rulers, that men do not think."
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"If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, 'You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world, why should you be frightened?'"
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"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."
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| "At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they'll be creative about it, and do something good besides." |  |
"He took my music. But he gave me my name."
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"I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear."
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| "Perhaps the Congress could honor the 50th anniversary of FDR's death by observing a few minutes of competence." |
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