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—Francis Bacon, 1597
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It would be impossible to live for a year without disaster unless one practiced character-reading.
—Virginia Woolf, 1924Shamelessness is the shame of being without shame.
—Mencius, c. 290 BCAmong famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCHow like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BCThe mansion of modern freedoms stands on an ever-expanding base of fossil-fuel use.
—Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2008We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887The purest joy is to live without disguise, unconstrained by the ties of a grave reputation.
—Al-Hariri, c. 1108Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCNothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, now that, and changes names as it changes in direction.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1315