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Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.

—Epictetus, c. 100

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

—Charles Dickens, 1843

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965

Jokes are grievances.

—Marshall McLuhan, 1969

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.

—Martial, c. 86

Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.

—Lord Byron, 1821

I imagined it was more difficult to die. 

—Louis XIV, 1715

Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.

—Marshall McLuhan, 1964

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770

Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.

—Norman O. Brown, 1959

Dance tunes are always right.

—Dylan Thomas, 1936

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

—Samuel Johnson, 1750

There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

—Mark Twain, 1894