A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992
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We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCToo often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCOne form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
—Phyllis Rose, 1991Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
—Charles Lamb, 1833The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.
—John Nance Garner, c. 1967The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They indeed are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903