Quotes from authors born on Dec 4th
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
Samuel Butler
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel Butler
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle
Patrick Troughton 
Milton Caniff 
Edmund Pendleton 
Margaret Hamilton 
Boris Johnson 
Francis Maude 
John Portman 
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