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Quamdiu centum viui remanserint, nuncquam Anglorum dominio aliquatenus volumus subjugari. As long as one hundred of us shall remain alive, we shall never consent to subject ourselves in any degree to English dominion.

-Anonymous
  Declaration of  Arbroath, a letter sent by the barons of Scotland to Pope John XXII, asserting Scotland's independence from England and their right to defend that independence with or without the support of their sovereign.

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  Representative Men,'Montaigne; or, The Skeptic'.

The aimof everyartist istoarrest motion, which islife, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

-Faulkner,William Harrison
  Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

A writer's ambition should be†to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years'time and for one reader in a hundred years.

-Koestler, Arthur
  In the NewYork Times Book Review,1  Apr.

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

-Pope, Alexander
  His response to reassurance from his doctors that his health was showing signs of improvement. Quoted inJoseph Spence Anecdotes by and about Alexander Pope (1820).

A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

-Puzo, Mario
  The Godfather, bk.1, ch.1.

The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so.

-Quiller-Couch, SirArthurThomas known as  'Q'
  The Oxford Book of EnglishVerse, preface.

Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

-Tennyson
  'The Charge of the Light Brigade', l.1^4.

'Forward, the Light Brigade!' Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew In Memoriam A.H.H. Some one had blundered: Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered.

-Tennyson
  'The Charge of the Light Brigade', l.9^21.

Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred.

-Tennyson
  'The Charge of the Light Brigade', l.24^6.

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