To teach is to learn twice over.
—Joseph Joubert, c. 1805
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Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCFriends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636Think rich. Look poor.
—Andy Warhol, 1975What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence, the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
—Mary Renault, 1956The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1787