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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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‘<strong>The</strong> Wind in the Willows’ (1908) ch. 1<br />

<strong>The</strong> poetry <strong>of</strong> motion! <strong>The</strong> real way to travel! <strong>The</strong> only way to travel! Here today—in next<br />

week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped—always somebody else’s horizon!<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Wind in the Willows’ (1908) ch. 2.<br />

7.79 James Grainger c.1721-66<br />

What is fame? an empty bubble;<br />

Gold? a transient, shining trouble.<br />

‘Solitude’ l. 96<br />

Knock <strong>of</strong>f the chains<br />

Of heart-debasing slavery; give to man,<br />

Of every colour and <strong>of</strong> every clime,<br />

Freedom, which stamps him image <strong>of</strong> his God.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Sugar Cane’ (1764) bk. 4<br />

7.80 Ulysses S. Grant 1822-85<br />

No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move<br />

immediately upon your works.<br />

To Simon Bolivar Buckner, whom he was besieging in Fort Donelson, 16 February 1862, in P. C. Headley<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Life and Campaigns <strong>of</strong> General U. S. Grant’ (1869) ch. 6<br />

I purpose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.<br />

Dispatch to Washington, from head-quarters in the field, 11 May 1864, in P. C. Headley ‘<strong>The</strong> Life and<br />

Campaigns <strong>of</strong> General U. S. Grant’ (1869) ch. 23<br />

Let us have peace.<br />

Letter to General Joseph R. Hawkey, 29 May 1868, accepting nomination for the presidency, in P. C. Headley<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Life and Campaigns <strong>of</strong> General U. S. Grant’ (1869) ch. 29<br />

I know no method to secure the repeal <strong>of</strong> bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent<br />

execution.<br />

Inaugural Address, 4 March 1869, in P. C. Headley ‘<strong>The</strong> Life and Campaigns <strong>of</strong> General U. S. Grant’ (1869)<br />

ch. 29<br />

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided...No personal considerations should stand in the<br />

way <strong>of</strong> performing a public duty.<br />

Indorsement <strong>of</strong> a letter relating to the Whiskey Ring, 29 July 1875<br />

7.81 George Granville, Baron Lansdowne 1666-1735<br />

I’ll be this abject thing no more;<br />

Love, give me back my heart again.<br />

‘Adieu l’Amour’<br />

Bright as the day, and like the morning, fair,<br />

Such Cloe is...and common as the air.<br />

‘Cloe’

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