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Death keeps no calendar.

—George Herbert, 1640

Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863

Business is other people’s money.

—Delphine de Girardin, 1852

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936

Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.

—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.

—Terence, 161 BC

A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.

—Plautus, c. 180 BC

Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.

—Che Guevara, 1965

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.

—Vladimir Lenin, 1923

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

—Albert Einstein, 1936