Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899
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The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
—Dean Acheson, 1970When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865The art of invention grows young with the things invented.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCThere must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
—Plato, c. 378 BCWar has silenced all laws.
—Lucan, c. 65There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175