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Corneille, Pierre
1606–84
1606–84
1
When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.
Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.
A first impulse was never a crime.
When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.
Le Cid
(1637) act 2, sc. 2
Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.
Horace
(1640) act 2, sc. 8
A first impulse was never a crime.
Horace
(1640) act 5, sc. 3.
Cornes, Ralph
1
Computers are anti-Faraday machines. He said he couldn't understand anything until he could count it, while computers count everything and understand nothing.
Computers are anti-Faraday machines. He said he couldn't understand anything until he could count it, while computers count everything and understand nothing.
in
Guardian
28 March 1991
Cornfeld, Bernard
1927–
1927–
1
Do you sincerely want to be rich?
stock question to salesmen
Do you sincerely want to be rich?
stock question to salesmen
C. Raw et al.
Do You Sincerely Want to be Rich?
(1971)
Cornford, Frances
1886–1960
1886–1960
1
How long ago Hector took off his plume,
Not wanting that his little son should cry,
Then kissed his sad Andromache goodbye—
And now we three in Euston waiting-room.
O fat white woman whom nobody loves,
Why do you walk through the fields in gloves…
Missing so much and so much?
How long ago Hector took off his plume,
Not wanting that his little son should cry,
Then kissed his sad Andromache goodbye—
And now we three in Euston waiting-room.
"Parting in Wartime" (1948)
O fat white woman whom nobody loves,
Why do you walk through the fields in gloves…
Missing so much and so much?
"To a Fat Lady seen from the Train" (1910)
Cornford, Francis M.
1874–1943
1874–1943
1
Every public action, which is not customary, either is wrong, or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.
That branch of the art of lying which consists in very nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
of propaganda
Every public action, which is not customary, either is wrong, or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.
Microcosmographia Academica
(1908) ch. 7
That branch of the art of lying which consists in very nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
of propaganda
Microcosmographia Academica
(1922 ed.)
Cornuel, Mme
1605–94
1605–94
1
No man is a hero to his valet.
No man is a hero to his valet.
Lettres de Mlle A
ssé à Madame C
(1787) Letter 13 "De Paris, 1728".
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