The most may err as grossly as the few.
—John Dryden, 1681
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The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125The more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1817He laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverbThose who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735When we define democracy now, it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1941Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971He 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, 1732Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverb