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Democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

—Margaret Halsey, 1946

New things are always ugly.

—Willa Cather, 1921

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.

—François Rabelais, 1535

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

—Horace Walpole, 1784

I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

—Coretta Scott King, 1994

Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.

—David Riesman, 1937

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.

—William Hazlitt, 1822

As he brews, so shall he drink.

—Ben Jonson, 1598

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

—Leonard Cohen, 1966

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1610

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

—John Huston, 1950

I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830