Quotes from authors born in 1774
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
Robert Southey
Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock.
Meriwether Lewis
The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten.
Meriwether Lewis
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Robert Southey
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Robert Southey
Emma Anderson 
Billy Eckstine 
Terry Pratchett 
Juan Antonio Samaranch 
Alan Dershowitz 
Sally Field 
Norman Tebbit 
Barry Levinson