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Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

—George Eliot, 1857

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

The whole secret of fencing consists but in two things, to give and not to receive.

—Molière, 1670

There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.

—Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

—George Herbert, 1651

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

—William James, 1902

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

—Walt Whitman, 1842

What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.

—Henry David Thoreau, 1852

Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.

—Dragging Canoe, 1775

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

—Pearl S. Buck, 1943

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

—Thomas Hardy, 1874

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC