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‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

—Jane Austen, 1813

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

—André Gide, 1927

All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.

—Jack London, 1912

Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.

—T. H. Huxley, 1895

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

—Erasmus, 1515

All 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

The more laws, the more lawbreakers.

—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BC

The twilight is the crack between the worlds.

—Carlos Castaneda, 1968

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

—William Blake, 1793

The law is far, the fist is near.

—Korean proverb

Friend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling.

—Harriet Jacobs, 1861

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles. 

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC