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It was lonesome, the leaving.

—Wetatonmi, c. 1877

Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

—Mao Zedong, 1938

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

—Aristotle, c. 322 BC

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

—Anna Sewell, 1877

If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.

—Mencius, c. 330 BC

The belly is the teacher of the arts and bestower of invention.

—Persius, c. 55

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.

—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929

Knowledge itself is power.

—Francis Bacon, 1597

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976

We die of comfort and by conflict live.

—May Sarton, 1953

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.

—Lewis Strauss, 1954

Hang work! I wish that all the year were holiday; I am sure that Indolence—indefeasible Indolence—is the true state of man.

—Charles Lamb, 1805