There is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverb
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A friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
—George Ade, 1902It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
—Francis Bacon, 1620Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.
—Alain de Lille, c. 1200It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.
—Thomas Paine, 1792We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
—Bion of Smyrna, c. 100 BCTo think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844