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Oil Quotes - Page 50

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.

Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

Beautiful things spoil nothing.

Gustave Flaubert (2015). “The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs and Letters: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Flaubert by Guy de Maupassant, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence”, p.251, e-artnow

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.

"It's Dumbo v Pinocchio" by Francis Wheen, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2000.

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.31, Friedrich Nietzsche

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

"Licymnius". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 430 BCE.