You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005
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The more men are massed together, the more corrupt they become. Disease and vice are the sure results of overcrowded cities.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbThe noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
—Mao Zedong, 1938Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverbI think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.
—Robert Frost, 1959