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Clamour Quotes

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.

Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.101, Joseph Conrad

They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.

Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. J. Phillips. Walsh. Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison. Hughes. Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire”, p.102

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.11, Cambridge University Press