“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1831-12-18)
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Quote of the Day
“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.” — George Best, “Best: Decline of the golden boy“, BBC News (14 June 2005)