Famous quotes containing the words york and/or record:
“As for your friend, my prospective reader, I hope he ignores Fort Sumter, and Old Abe, and all that; for that is just the most fatal, and, indeed, the only fatal weapon you can direct against evil ever; for, as long as you know of it, you are particeps criminis. What business have you, if you are an angel of light, to be pondering over the deeds of darkness, reading the New York Herald, and the like.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.”
—Jonathan Swift (16671745)
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