I never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.
—Anna Sewell, 1877
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It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894Friend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling.
—Harriet Jacobs, 1861Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.
—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.
—Ovid, c. 8No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCThe enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
—James Hutton, 1795The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968