- Matthew Prior
(07/21/1664 – 09/18/1721)
English writer
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"Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician."
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"Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate."
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"Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape."
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"The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors."
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"The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision."
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"When one has reached 81 . . . one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it."
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| "I rate censors, particularly those of church and state, as low as I rate character assassins; they often run together." |  |
"It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you're dead, you're made for life."
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| "Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else." |  |
| "Flowers grow out of dark moments." |  |
"The girls kick the hell out of the guys. I've always played well at the Ivy League...Cornell, Dartmouth. I have never encountered a berating woman."
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| Born 09/17 | Born 09/18 | Born 09/19 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 09/17 | Died 09/18 | Died 09/19 | Death Dates |