It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80
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I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
—Thomas Malory, c. 1470Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one’s conquests.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1866A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, 1876A false report rides post.
—English proverbThere never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
—Henry Fielding, 1730I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
—Woody Allen, 1971