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Ulysses S. Grant, regarding the Mexican–American War (1883), as quoted in Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885), p. 16 The Southern rebellion was...

Ulysses S. Grant, regarding the Mexican–American War, as quoted in Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885), Chapter 3 The thunderclap of Sumter produced...

letteth thee believe in a God? Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885), T. Common, trans., LXVI, p. 319. What's piety but the sense of guilt? People...

Europe. George S. Patton, as quoted in Patton: The Man Behind The Legend, 1885-1945 (1985) by Martin Blumenson, New York: William Morrison, p. 281 Many...

Dictionary of American proverbs. pp. 710.  Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves. Edwin Paxton Hood (1885). The World of...

how America deals with its history of racism has continued to grow in urgency. Lorraine Boissoneault, “What Will Happen to Stone Mountain, America’s Largest...

any American dream. We've experienced only the American nightmare. We haven't benefited from America's democracy. We've only suffered from America's hypocrisy...

beats upon a throne. Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King (published 1859-1885), Dedication, line 26. They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea;...

contrary." Thomas Fuller, Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727) Mawr, E.B. (1885). Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages. p. 16.  Atqui, ex lotio est. Translation:...

letter December 1559 as quoted in John Knox by William Mackergo Taylor, 1885, pp. 25-26 You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when...

rise to a suspicion of adulteration. Chitty, J., In re Trade-Mark "Alpine" (1885), L. R. 29 C. D. 880. The word commission sounds sweet in a merchant's ear...

Niels Henrik David Bohr (7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist. He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922 for his contributions...

pode. English equivalent: Needs must go when the devil drives. Mawr, E.B. (1885). Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages. p. 60.  A pai guardador, filho gastador...

of the existence of which he is unaware. Cow, J., The Queen v. Ashwell (1885), L. R. 16 Q. B. 201; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary...

he perceived that the other no longer stirred. Emile Zola, in Germinal (1885), Chapter Six, Part 5 ("The Death of Trompette") The horse is God's gift...

Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 April 1882) was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet. The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the...

beyond its Scottish origins. The first Amateur Championship was held in 1885, and this, along with the patronage of leading figures, notably the politician...

"Tip" O'Neill, the famous slugger of Charlie Comiskey's St. Louis Browns of 1885. Anonymous, "Will Sox Capture Another Pennant", The Chattanooga News (May...

machines of defense but in ourselves. ~ Chester W. Nimitz (born 24 February 1885) selected by Kalki 2007 Terrible is the day when each sees his soul naked...

hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them. Will Carleton (1885) City Ballads, p. 143. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical...