Prologue Quotes 

"This is the start, the beginning The prologue to the yarn that you're spinning A million synonyms will never get close to describe the feeling"
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Here then will we begin the story: onlyadding thus much to that which hath been said, that it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the story itself.

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— Maccabees 2:32.

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In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt.

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— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IX, line 853.

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   Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

william congreve

— 1693  Bellmore to Belinda. The Old Bachelor, act 5, sc.10.

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A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.


— James Madison, letter to W.T. Barry (1822-08-04)

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It is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the story itself.


— II Maccabees, II. 32.

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What's past is prologue.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, The Tempest (c. 1610-1612), Act II, scene 1, line 253.

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A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

james madison

— Letter to W.T. Barry (1822-08-04)

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A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.


— James Madison, Letter to W.T. Barry (1822-08-04).

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A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.


— James Madison, Letter to W.T. Barry (1822-08-04)

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We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again: And, by that destiny, to perform an act, Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.


— Antonio, scene i, QOTD 2008·04·23 Sound file

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