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The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself. — William Rees-Mogg

I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside. — Christian McKay

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century. — Paul Fry

I am a person of the 18th century. — Cecilia Bartoli

Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century. — Ernst W. Mayr

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time. — Michael Tippett

Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into the 18th century. — David Letterman

Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. — P. J. O'Rourke

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available. — Bill Bryson

What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again. — Lynne Truss

The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness. — William Manchester

Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter. — Barbara Ehrenreich

It's a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes. — Matthew Tobin Anderson

Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises. — Simon Schama

Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost. — Seamus Heaney

The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking. — Leslie Stephen

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day. — Ron Chernow

It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history. — Matthew Stewart

Spending time on 18th-century ships in Tahiti when I was 17 was quite unusual. — Dexter Fletcher

In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation. — David McCullough

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age — Charles Bukowski

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M.H. Abrams

Once more they had left their own time for another age. The age of Bellman, the bacchanalian 18th-century poet. — Henning Mankell

If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947. — Pranab Mukherjee

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began. — Erica Jong

I have always thought it bad manners to let one's fingers stay too long in another man's snuffbox. — Anna Freeman

Look at the 18th century. There was a lot more freedom going on. — Steve Coogan

In the 18th Century William Blake saw Heaven in a grain of sand. Most people nowadays can't even see the writing on the wall. — Dean Cavanagh

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. — Jonathan Sacks

Senator Goldwater would have been a great success in the movies - working for 18th century Fox. — Hubert H. Humphrey