All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880
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There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbSo long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
—George Washington, 1783Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia, 1943Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258