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—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BCThe basis of optimism is sheer terror.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
—Philip Sidney, 1582The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCQuarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
—Mencius, c. 330 BC“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813