Quotes with tartars

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• He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, fight in his imagination.

  Source: Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden

  ― Ben Jonson
  British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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• Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.

  ― Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• carthaginians
• imagination
• individuals
• memorable
• populate
• strives

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