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Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.	A. A. Milne	[ "business", "money" ]
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.	A. A. Milne	[ "love" ]
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.	A. A. Milne	[ "best" ]
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.	A. A. Milne	[ "education" ]
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.	A. A. Milne	[ "intelligence" ]
One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.	A. B. Yehoshua	[ "dreams" ]
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.	A. Bartlett Giamatti	[ "sports" ]
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.	A. Bartlett Giamatti	[ "society" ]
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.	A. Bartlett Giamatti	[ "education", "society" ]
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.	A. Bartlett Giamatti	[ "art", "teacher" ]
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.	A. C. Benson	[ "change" ]
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.	A. C. Benson	[ "business" ]
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.	A. C. Benson	[ "teacher" ]
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.	A. C. Benson	[ "age" ]
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.	A. E. Housman	[ "poetry" ]
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.	A. E. Housman	[ "experience", "morning", "poetry" ]
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.	A. E. Housman	[ "poetry" ]
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.	A. E. van Vogt	[ "christmas" ]
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.	A. J. Liebling	[ "food" ]
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.	A. J. Liebling	[ "beauty", "christmas" ]
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.	A. J. Liebling	[ "science" ]
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.	A. J. Liebling	[ "freedom", "politics" ]
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.	A. J. Liebling	[ "food" ]
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.	A. J. Liebling	[ "travel" ]
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.	A. J. Liebling	[ "society" ]
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.	A. J. Liebling	[ "food" ]
A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.	A. J. Liebling	[ "morning" ]
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.	A. J. Muste	[ "peace" ]
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.	A. J. P. Taylor	[ "history" ]
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.	A. J. P. Taylor	[ "power" ]
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.	A. J. P. Taylor	[ "peace" ]
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.	A. P. Herbert	[ "marriage" ]
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.	A. P. Herbert	[ "anniversary", "marriage" ]
In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.	A. Philip Randolph	[ "truth" ]
Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.	A. Philip Randolph	[ "freedom", "relationship" ]
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.	A. R. Ammons	[ "poetry" ]
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.	A. R. Ammons	[ "poetry" ]
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.	A. R. Ammons	[ "alone" ]
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.	A. R. Ammons	[ "poetry" ]
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.	A. R. Ammons	[ "poetry" ]
If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'	A. R. Ammons	[ "poetry" ]
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.	A. R. Ammons	[ "poetry" ]
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.	A. R. Ammons	[ "poetry" ]
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.	A. R. Ammons	[ "health" ]
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.	A. R. Ammons	[ "experience" ]
That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.	A. R. Ammons	[ "poetry" ]
A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?	Aaron Spelling	[ "patience" ]
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.	Abba Eban	[ "history" ]
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.	Abba Eban	[ "politics" ]
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.	Abba Eban	[ "peace" ]
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.	Abbie Hoffman	[ "freedom" ]
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.	Abbie Hoffman	[ "death", "respect", "war" ]
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.	Abbie Hoffman	[ "society" ]
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.	Abbie Hoffman	[ "legal", "medical" ]
The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.	Abdoulaye Wade	[ "teacher" ]
I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.	Abdul Qadeer Khan	[ "forgiveness" ]
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.	Abdullah Ibrahim	[ "knowledge" ]
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.	Abdus Salam	[ "patience" ]
You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'	Abe Lemons	[ "medical" ]
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.	Abe Lemons	[ "medical" ]
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.	Abigail Adams	[ "knowledge" ]
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.	Abigail Adams	[ "power" ]
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.	Abigail Adams	[ "intelligence" ]
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'	Abigail Adams	[ "power" ]
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.	Abigail Adams	[ "marriage", "men", "power" ]
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.	Abigail Adams	[ "education", "learning" ]
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.	Abigail Adams	[ "women" ]
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.	Abigail Adams	[ "experience", "wisdom" ]
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.	Abraham Cahan	[ "faith" ]
Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.	Abraham Cahan	[ "life" ]
I was a great dreamer of day dreams.	Abraham Cahan	[ "dreams" ]
Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.	Abraham Cahan	[ "smile" ]
Only the other world has substance and reality only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.	Abraham Cahan	[ "learning" ]
Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.	Abraham Cahan	[ "anger" ]
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.	Abraham Cowley	[ "knowledge" ]
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.	Abraham Joshua Heschel	[ "religion" ]
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.	Abraham Joshua Heschel	[ "love" ]
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.	Abraham Joshua Heschel	[ "failure", "god" ]
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.	Abraham Joshua Heschel	[ "inspirational", "knowledge" ]
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.	Abraham Joshua Heschel	[ "respect" ]
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.	Abraham Joshua Heschel	[ "god" ]
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.	Abraham Joshua Heschel	[ "god", "love", "strength", "time" ]
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.	Abraham Kuyper	[ "faith", "peace" ]
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "religion" ]
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "business" ]
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "equality", "men" ]
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "happiness" ]
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "experience" ]
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "money" ]
I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "best" ]
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "freedom" ]
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "life", "nature" ]
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "hope" ]
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "hope", "mothersday" ]
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "god" ]
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "future", "great", "men" ]
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "great" ]
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "failure", "great" ]
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "best", "future", "time" ]
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.	Abraham Lincoln	[ "politics" ]

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Dataset Card for English Historical Quotes

I-Dataset Summary

english_historical_quotes is a dataset of many historical quotes. This dataset can be used for multi-label text classification and text generation. The content of each quote is in English.

II-Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

Multi-label text classification : The dataset can be used to train a model for text-classification, which consists of classifying quotes by author as well as by topic (using tags). Success on this task is typically measured by achieving a high or low accuracy.
Text-generation : The dataset can be used to train a model to generate quotes by fine-tuning an existing pretrained model on the corpus composed of all quotes (or quotes by author).

III-Languages

The texts in the dataset are in English (en).

IV-Dataset Structure

Data Instances

A JSON-formatted example of a typical instance in the dataset:

{"quote":"Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.", "author":"A. A. Milne", "categories": "['business', 'money']" }

Data Fields

author : The author of the quote.
quote : The text of the quote.
tags: The tags could be characterized as topics around the quote.

Data Splits

The dataset is one block, so that it can be further processed using Hugging Face datasets functions like the ``.train_test_split() method.

V-Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

The goal is to share good datasets with the HuggingFace community so that they can use them in NLP tasks and advance artificial intelligence.

Source Data

The data has been aggregated from various open-access internet archives. Then it has been manually refined, duplicates and false quotes removed by me.

It is the backbone of my website dixit.app, which allows to search historical quotes through semantic search.