Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
—Albert Camus, 1957Whatsoever is, is in God.
—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978No one’s serious at seventeen.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BCWants keep pace with wealth always.
—Timothy Titcomb, 1859Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480In all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.
—William Petty, 1690The highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Those who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893