The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
—Laurie Colwin, 1978The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.
—Mark Twain, c. 1900Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature—not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.
—John Ruskin, 1860