Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The whole secret of fencing consists but in two things, to give and not to receive.
—Molière, 1670There 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, 1957Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902I 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, 1842What 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, 1852Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897None 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, 1943It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
—Euripides, c. 415 BC