The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.
—Larry Kramer, 1992The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.
—Mary de la Riviere Manley, 1720Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverbOne man’s loss is another man’s profit.
—Michel de Montaigne, c. 1580“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706