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Sarah Bernhardt ‐ Love is the cure for age. - Mother Jones ‐ No nation is stronger than its women.
- Percy Hammond ‐ Chicago is the sewer of the inland seas.
- Emperor William ‐ The Lord of Hosts will help us to victory.
- Arnold Bennett ‐ The first year of marriage is the hardest.
- Rev. W. R. Yard ‐ The soul, just for itself, is not worth saving.
- Woodrow Wilson ‐ Talking thru the hat ought to be a dead industry.
- Charlie Chaplin ‐ It is impossible to tell exactly how funny business is made.
- The Bishop of Worcester ‐ England is at the dawn of a great religious revival.
- Rev. J. W. Heiniger ‐ The world is well nigh overrun with moth-eaten people.
- Ed. Howe ‐ Most persons say they have a favorite poet. I have not. I dislike all of them.
- Augustus Thomas ‐ It won't do to suppress a play because evil things are done in it.
- Charles Warren Fairbanks ‐ This prosperity is the prosperity of bloody murder.
- Mrs. Charles E. Hughes ‐ The joys of motherhood cannot be put into words. They must be lived.
- Judge Mahoney, of Chicago ‐ The next time you're bothered by a man jab him with a hat pin.
- Jane Eddington ‐ One could write rather an entertaining and useful booklet on the parsnip.
- David Belasco ‐ The greatest part of my success in the theater I attribute to my feeling for colors.
- Lillian Russell ‐ Dressing should be done quickly, as slow, puttering dressing is a strain on the nerves.
- Charles E. Hughes ‐ The view of the present administration is that a problem avoided is a problem solved.
- Robert Herrick ‐ Ours is the country of quack medicine, quack thinking, quack legislation and quack religions.
“Remarkable Remarks,” in
The Independent “with which is incorporated Harper’s Weekly” (October 30, 1916) : 177 : link
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Lillian Russell (1860-1922), actress, singer, newspaper columnist, suffragist, public figure; took fact-finding mission to Europe for President Warren Harding, on the subject of immigration (led to restrictive policies)
wikipedia : link
13 January 2026