Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCNot a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
—James Russell Lowell, 1884The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888