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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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I am the enemy you killed, my friend.<br />

I knew you in this dark: for you so frowned<br />

Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed.<br />

I parried; but my hands were loath and cold.<br />

Let us sleep now...<br />

‘Strange Meeting’ (written 1918)<br />

3.42 Count Oxenstierna 1583-1654<br />

Vet du icke, min son, med husu liten wishet verlden regeras?<br />

Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?<br />

Letter to his son, 1648, in J. F. af Lundblad ‘Svensk Plutark’ (1826) pt. 2, p. 95. John Selden, in ‘Table<br />

Talk’ (1689), quotes ‘a certain Pope’ (possibly Julius III) saying: ‘Thou little thinkest what a little foolery<br />

governs the whole world!’<br />

3.43 Edward De Vere, Earl <strong>of</strong> <strong>Oxford</strong> 1550-1604<br />

If women could be fair and yet not fond.<br />

‘Women’s Changeableness’<br />

4.0 P<br />

4.1 Vance Packard 1914—<br />

<strong>The</strong> hidden persuaders.<br />

Title <strong>of</strong> a study <strong>of</strong> the advertising industry (1957)<br />

4.2 William Tyler Page 1868-1942<br />

I believe in the United States <strong>of</strong> America as a government <strong>of</strong> the people, by the people, for the<br />

people, whose just powers are derived from the consent <strong>of</strong> the governed; a democracy in a<br />

republic; a sovereign Nation <strong>of</strong> many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable,<br />

established upon those principles <strong>of</strong> freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American<br />

patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love<br />

it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all<br />

enemies.<br />

‘American’s Creed’ (prize-winning competition entry, 3 April 1918) in ‘Congressional Record’ vol. 56, pt. 12<br />

(appendix), p. 286.<br />

4.3 Thomas Paine 1737-1809<br />

It is necessary to the happiness <strong>of</strong> man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does<br />

not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in pr<strong>of</strong>essing to believe what one does not<br />

believe.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Age <strong>of</strong> Reason’ pt. 1 (1794) ch. 1<br />

Any system <strong>of</strong> religion that has any thing in it that shocks the mind <strong>of</strong> a child cannot be a true

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