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That which is evil is soon learned. 

—John Ray, 1670

Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.

—Juvenal, 128

Scandal begins where the police leave off.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BC

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

—George Eliot, 1857

Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back. 

—Horace, c. 25 BC

A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.

—Josiah Tucker, 1766

Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.

—Martin Heidegger, 1949

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.

—Lawrence Durrell, 1957

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

—Hannah Arendt, 1970