Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun—thrives ill under clouds.
—Bronson Alcott, 1872All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1666Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843The elephant, although a gross beast, is yet the most decent and most sensible of any other upon earth. Although he never changes his female, and hath so tender a love for her whom he hath chosen, yet he never couples with her but at the end of every three years, and then only for the space of five days.
—St. Francis de Sales, 1609I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
—Hugh Plat, 1595Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
—William Empson, 1928Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1935Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717