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—Joseph Joubert, c. 1805
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Fear is the foundation of most governments.
—John Adams, 1776At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BCMuch money makes a country poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
—George Herbert, 1640A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
—Mark Twain, 1873Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.
—Susanna Centlivre, 1703What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968