James Gordon Bennett

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    ‘Intellectualism’ is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.
    —William James (1842–1910)

    A woman who ... gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover—but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
    —Alan Bennett (b. 1934)