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Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.

—Che Guevara, 1965

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.

—Iris Murdoch, 1978

I looked and there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed with him.

—Book of Revelations, c. 90

Power is so apt to be insolent, and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good terms.

—George Savile, c. 1690

Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?

—Amy Lowell, 1922

It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.

—Euripides, 412 BC

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

—Virginia Woolf, 1921

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

—William Hazlitt, 1823

It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

—Cory Doctorow, 2013

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1954

A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.

—Ben Jonson, 1633

Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.

—Democritus, c. 420 BC