One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.
—Mary de la Riviere Manley, 1720
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I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1919An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCIn time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
—Carl Sandburg, 1934Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.
—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625