The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870
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The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbTo escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCA private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCAll the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983