Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956
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At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art—that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944God is making commerce his missionary.
—Joseph Cook, c. 1877Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.
—George Eliot, 1876No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
—Wendell Berry, 1983If I had been born a man, I would have conquered Europe. As I was born a woman, I exhausted my energy in tirades against fate and in eccentricities.
—Marie Bashkirtseff, 1884What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787