I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798
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Ah! Freedom is a noble thing!
—John Barbour, 1375Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbQuarreling must lead to disorder, and disorder exhaustion.
—Xunzi, c. 250 BCThe most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870These useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.
—Dio Chrysostom, c. 95Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1758If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850To teach is to learn twice over.
—Joseph Joubert, c. 1805The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905