Quotes from authors passed in 1777
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.
Samuel Foote
I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.
Johann Heinrich Lambert
I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.
Johann Heinrich Lambert
I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them.
Johann Heinrich Lambert
He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
Samuel Foote
Paul Castellano 
Michael Cunningham 
Charlie Watts 
Hirohito 
Tom Courtenay 
Thomas Keller 
Willie Green 
Ernst Mach