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All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.

—Helen Keller, 1928

Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.

—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816

Exchange is no robbery.

—German proverb

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950

Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.

—Andy Warhol, 1975

Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

—George Gershwin, 1933

Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

—George Washington, 1783

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—­democracy to many.

—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.

—Antonio Porchia, 1943

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

—Hannah Arendt, 1970

The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.

—Saadi, 1258