Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978I looked and there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed with him.
—Book of Revelations, c. 90Power is so apt to be insolent, and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good terms.
—George Savile, c. 1690Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCThe older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCIf the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013If 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., 1954A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BC