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—Dylan Thomas, 1936
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We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821The sea hath no king but God alone.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881Democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
—Margaret Halsey, 1946In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
—Robert Runcie, 1988The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCModeration in all things.
—Terence, 166 BCThere is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCThanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817