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  • John Milton Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
    ― John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Milton Friedman Governments never learn. Only people learn.
    ― Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • Milton Friedman History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
    ― Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • Milton Friedman Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
    ― Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • Milton Berle A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
    ― Milton Berle
    American comedian and actor (1908 - 2002)
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  • John Milton A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
    ― John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • John Milton A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
    ― John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • John Milton A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
    ― John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Milton Friedman A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
    ― Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • John Milton A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
    ― John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • John Milton A short retirement urges a sweet return.
    ― John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • John Milton Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.
    ― John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • John Milton And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
    ― John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • John Milton And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
    ― John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • John Milton As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
    ― John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • John Milton Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
    Source: Paradise lost (1667) I, 263
    ― John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • John Milton Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
    ― John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • John Milton But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
    ― John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • John Milton Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
    ― John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Milton Berle Committee-a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
    ― Milton Berle
    American comedian and actor (1908 - 2002)
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