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Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
—John Locke, 1695A crowded police court docket is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty.
—Mark Twain, 1872Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things, and once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCAll men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.
—Guy R. Williams, 1975By night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989