Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.
—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844
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He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.
—Italian proverbArt, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910Shamelessness is the shame of being without shame.
—Mencius, c. 290 BCThe brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920To teach is to learn twice over.
—Joseph Joubert, c. 1805At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverbOh, democracy! Whither are you leading us?
—Aristophanes, 414 BCLife is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817Nobody, sir, dies willingly.
—Antiphanes, c. 370 BC