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Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811

Whoever has died is freed from sin.

—St. Paul, c. 50

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

—Ouida, 1880

Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.

—Richard Brathwaite, 1631

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

Those from whom we were born have long since departed, and those with whom we grew up exist only in memory. We, too, through the approach of death, become, as it were, trees growing on the sandy bank of a river.

—Bhartrihari, c. 400

I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive. 

—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BC

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.

—Martial, c. 86

Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

—Tacitus, c. 100

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

—Bertrand Russell, 1930

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.

—Zadie Smith, 2000