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Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

—Italo Calvino, 1957

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

—Voltaire, 1764

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.

—Pope Leo XIII, 1891

I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.

—Elizabeth I, 1588

Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

—Kin Hubbard

Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

—John Wilkes Booth, 1865

I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That’s a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.

—Philip K. Dick, 1972

I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

 

—Fidel Castro, 1959