I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.
—Lord Byron, 1817
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.
—Tacitus, 117Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962If 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. 75Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883Those 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, 1747The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905The 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