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Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.

—Arthur Griffiths, 1899

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

—Dean Acheson, 1970

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865

The art of invention grows young with the things invented.

—Francis Bacon, 1605

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BC

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.

—Sylvia Plath, 1963

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.

—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895

Dread attends the unknown.

—Nadine Gordimer, 1998

Any 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 BC

War has silenced all laws.

—Lucan, c. 65

There 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