There's a fascination frantic ...

There\'s a fascination frantic in a ruin that\'s romantic.
There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.
 W. S. Gilbert

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Quotes from the same author

I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.
 W. S. Gilbert
Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
 W. S. Gilbert
After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.
 W. S. Gilbert
I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.
 W. S. Gilbert
Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements
 W. S. Gilbert