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“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is…

“Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.” – Mary Pickford The actress and…

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they…

“I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.” – Al Capone Alphonse Gabriel Capone was…

“The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.” – Humphrey Bogart Humphrey DeForest Bogart was…

“Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour government” – King…

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year” – Charles Dickens Few writers…

“Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits” – Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin is quite…

“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt” – Herbert Hoover. Some individuals seem to have a…

“Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.” – Irving Berlin Born Israel…

“A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.” – J.R.R. Tolkien. J. R. R. Tolkien Biography…

“I have ways of making money that you know nothing of” – John D. Rockefeller For a man who was…

“I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.” – Gustave Eiffel. Gustave Eiffel…

“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to…

“All I know is just how to make people laugh” – Stan Laurel Born on 16 June 1890 in Ulverston,…

“Live without seeing, but be what you are.” – Louis Braille Louis Braille Biography Born on 4 January 1809, Louis…