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Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.

—Carl Sandburg, 1936

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

—H.G. Wells, 1905

Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one’s conquests.

—Louisa May Alcott, 1866

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.

—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1515

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

—Théophile Gautier, c. 1835

Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.

—Jean Anouilh, 1934

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

—W.H. Auden, 1957

Ocean. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

Music is our myth of the inner life.

—Susanne K. Langer, 1942

To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.

—Pope Leo XIII, 1885

There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.

—William Howard Taft, 1921