Indexed in the public record
“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.”
Provenance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b8d00cb8abe331b1b575e5b2c9fb852df5a31ec61945c41691a324c4611c4d87
reference only
Related in the record
“Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness.”
Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts…”
Terence
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan…”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are…”
Pilpay (or Bidpai.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.”
Terence
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“What 's one man's poison, signor, Is another's meat or drink.”
Beaumont and Fletcher
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Said something yourself? Put it on the record — $5.
A timestamped public registration for your own line — before someone else claims it.
This is an indexed reference citation, not a legal registry entry and not a claim of ownership.