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I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.

—Lord Byron, 1817

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

—Anthony Trollope, 1862

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

—Salvador Dalí, 1953

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. 

—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942

For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

—Jane Austen, 1813

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.

—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825

The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.

—Tacitus, 117

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.

—Jochanan ben Zakkai, c. 75

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883

Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.

—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747

The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.

—Eugene V. Debs, 1905

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1919