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  • When I thinkof what I is And what I used to was, I gin to think I've sold myself For very little cas.

    -Jane Baillie ne  e Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle
      Journal entry, 5 Nov. Collected in  James  Anthony Froude (ed) Letters and Memorials of  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883), vol.2.

  • Si inuenissem emptorum, Londoniam uendidissem. If I could have found a buyer I would have sold London itself.

    -Richard I known as  'the Lionheart'
      Of his fundraising for the Crusade to Palestine. Quoted in Richard of Devizes Chronicle of Richard of Devizes of theTime of King Richard I (c.1192).

  •    The people will live on. The learning and blundering will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.

    - Carl Sandburg
      The People,Yes.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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