| "I was recently on a tour of latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study latin harder in school so I could converse with those people." »J Danforth Quayle |
| "Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read latin." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
| "There is a negative proof of the value of latin No one seems to boast of not knowing it." »Peter Brodie |
| "latin A sword never kills anybody it is a tool in the killer's hand." »Seneca |
| "The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind." »Albert Camus |
| "The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn latin." »Heinrich Heine |
| "Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing." »Oscar Wilde |
| "One attraction of latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day." »Peter Brodie |
| "I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde |
| "Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success." »Kurt Herbert Alder |
| "You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner." »Aristophanes |
| "I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life." »Sir Thomas Browne |
| "One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar." »Oscar Wilde |
| "Wisdom and spirit of the Universe Thou soul is the eternity of thought That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart." »William Wordsworth |
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