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Bishop Berkeley

Life dates: 1684 AD — 1753 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1718 AD

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.

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02c. 1718 AD

Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.

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03c. 1718 AD

[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.

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04c. 1718 AD

The world is like a board with holes in it and the square men have got into the round holes and the round into the square.

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