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“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, “the law is a ass⁠—a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience⁠—by experience.”
Charles Dickens1812–1870Oliver Twist (1838), Chapter LIIn context
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- Laws
It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Bleak House (1853), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Marriage
The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Bleak House (1853), Chapter XXXIXIn context
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- Laws
It was a nice sickly season just at this time. In commercial phrase, coffins were looking up
Charles Dickens1812–1870Oliver Twist (1838), Chapter VIIn context
“It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper,” said Mr. Bumble. “So cry away.”
Charles Dickens1812–1870Oliver Twist (1838), Chapter XXXVIIIn context
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
EDEdsger W. Dijkstra1930–2002How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)
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- Computers
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
EDEdsger W. Dijkstra1930–2002How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)
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- Computers
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
EDEdsger W. Dijkstra1930–2002How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)
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- Computers
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881The Young Duke (1831), Book II, Chapter 5.
You know who critics are?⁠— the men who have failed in literature and art.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Lothair (1870), Ch. 35
- Art
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Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orator really did lose his virginity.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881The Young Duke (1831), Book I, Chapter 6.
- Talking
If in his study he hath so much care
To hang all old strange things, let his wife beware.
John Donne1572–1631Epigrams, “Antiquary”, in Poems (1633)
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- Marriage
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
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- Intelligence
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
The interpretations of Freud are more and more successful because they are among the myths accessible to modern man.
Mircea Eliade1907–1986No Souvenirs (1977) later retitled Journal II, 1957-1969 (1989), p. 117
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