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1460a 26–7
    [Aristotle]

5 Man is by nature a political animal.
    Politics bk. 1, 1253a 2–3
    [Aristotle]

6 He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
    Politics bk. 1, 1253a 27–9
    [Aristotle]

7 Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
    Politics bk. 1, 1256b 20–21
    [Aristotle]

8 Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas.Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
    Latin translation of a Greek original ascribed to Aristotle
    [Aristotle]

9 When he was asked "What is a friend?" he said "One soul inhabiting two bodies."
    Diogenes Laertius Lives of Philosophers bk. 5, sect. 20
    [Aristotle]
     
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Armistead, Lewis Addison 1817–63
    1 Give them the cold steel, boys!
during the American Civil War, 1863
    attributed
     
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Armstrong, Harry 1879–1951
    1
There's an old mill by the stream, Nellie Dean,
Where we used to sit and dream.
    "Nellie Dean" (1905 song)
     
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Armstrong, John 1709–79
    1 'Tis not for mortals always to be blest.
    The Art of Preserving Health (1744) bk. 4, l. 260

2 'Tis not too late tomorrow to be brave.
    The Art of Preserving Health (1744) bk. 4, l. 460
    [Armstrong]
     
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Armstrong, Louis 1901–71
    1 If you still have to ask…shame on you.
when asked what jazz is; sometimes quoted as, "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know"
    Max Jones et al. Salute to Satchmo (1970)
     
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Armstrong, Neil 1930–
    1 That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
as the craft touched down, he had radioed "Houston. Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed"
    in New York Times 21 July 1969; interference in the transmission obliterated "a"
     
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Armstrong, Robert 1927–
    1 It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
during the "Spycatcher" trial in New South Wales
    in Daily Telegraph 19 November 1986. ,
     
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Arnold, Edwin 1832–1904
    1
Nor ever once ashamed
So we be named
Press-men; Slaves of the Lamp; Servants of Light.
    "The Tenth Muse" (1895) st. 18
     
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Arnold, Matthew 1822–88
    1
The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another!
    "Dover Beach" (1867) l. 21

2
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
    "Dover Beach" (1867) l. 35
    [Arnold]

3
Come, dear children, let us away;
Down and away below!
    "The Forsaken Merman" (1849) l. 1
    [Arnold]

4
Now the wild white horses play,
Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
    "The Forsaken Merman" (1849) l. 4
    [Arnold]

5
Where great whales come sailing by,
Sail and sail, with unshut eye,
Round the world for ever and aye.
    "The Forsaken Merman" (1849) l. 43
    [Arnold]

6
Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn
Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
    "Parting" (1852) l. 19
    [Arnold]

7
Eternal Passion!
Eternal Pain!

of the nightingale
    "Philomela" (1853) l. 31
    [Arnold]

8
Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat.
    "Poor Matthias" (1885) l. 40
    [Arnold]

9
Not deep the Poet sees, but wide.
    "Resignation" (1849) l. 214
    [Arnold]

10
Go, for they call you, Shepherd, from the hill.
    "The Scholar-Gipsy" (1853) l. 1
    [Arnold]

11
All the live murmur of a summer's day.
    "The Scholar-Gipsy" (1853) l. 20
    [Arnold]

12
Tired of knocking at Preferment's door.
    "The Scholar-Gipsy" (1853) l. 35
    [Arnold]

13
Crossing the stripling Thames at Bab-lock-hithe.
    "The Scholar-Gipsy" (1853) l. 74
    [Arnold]

14
The line of festal light in Christ-Church hall.
    "The Scholar-Gipsy"