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Coroner1 quote
The law has little to say on the subject of things left undone. — Coroner · 1958Edward Gibbon1 quote
Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet. — Edward Gibbon · 1789G.M. Trevelyan1 quote
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. — G.M. Trevelyan · 1942Henry Kissinger1 quote
The history of things that didn’t happen has never been written. — Henry Kissinger · 1972Kane1 quote
You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man. — Kane · 1941Mike McDermott1 quote
If you had it to do all over again, would you make the same choices? — Mike McDermott · 1998Sean Devine1 quote
The reality is we’re still 11-year-old boys locked in a cellar imagining what our lives would have been if we’d escaped. — Sean Devine · 2003T.S. Eliot1 quote
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. — T.S. Eliot · 1936