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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Opposing disaffiliation <strong>of</strong> the Scottish Independent Labour Party from the Labour Party, in ‘Daily Herald’ 12<br />

January 1931 (<strong>of</strong>ten quoted as ‘...no right in the bloody circus’)<br />

1.99 Jonathan Mayhew 1720-66<br />

Rulers have no authority from God to do mischief...As soon as the prince sets himself up above<br />

the law, he loses the king in the tyrant. He does to all intents and purpose unking himself...and in<br />

such cases has no more right to be obeyed than any inferior <strong>of</strong>ficer who acts beyond his<br />

commission.<br />

‘A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers’ 30 January 1750<br />

1.100 Margaret Mead 1901-78<br />

<strong>The</strong> knowledge that the personalities <strong>of</strong> the two sexes are socially produced is congenial to<br />

every programme that looks forward towards a planned order <strong>of</strong> society. It is a two-edged sword.<br />

‘Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies’ (1935)<br />

1.101 Shepherd Mead 1914—<br />

How to succeed in business without really trying.<br />

Title <strong>of</strong> book (1952)<br />

1.102 Hughes Mearns 1875-1965<br />

As I was walking up the stair<br />

I met a man who wasn’t there.<br />

He wasn’t there again today.<br />

I wish, I wish he’d stay away.<br />

Lines written for ‘<strong>The</strong> Psycho-ed’, an amateur play, in Philadelphia, 1910. Set to music in 1939 as ‘<strong>The</strong> Little<br />

Man Who Wasn’t <strong>The</strong>re’<br />

1.103 Cosimo De’ Medici 1389-1464<br />

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our<br />

friends.<br />

In Francis Bacon ‘Apophthegms’ (1625) no. 206 (speaking <strong>of</strong> what Bacon calls ‘perfidious friends’)<br />

1.104 Lorenzo De’ Medici 1449-92<br />

Quanto é bella giovinezza<br />

Che si fugge tuttavia!<br />

Chi vuol esser lieto sia:<br />

Di doman non ci é certezza.<br />

How beautiful is youth, that is always slipping away! Whoever wants to be happy, let him be<br />

so: <strong>of</strong> tomorrow there’s no knowing.<br />

‘Trionfo di Bacco di Arianna’

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