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The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.

—Lord Byron, 1821

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC

Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.

—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924

He who sings frightens away his ills.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

—August Strindberg, 1886

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

—William Blake, 1793

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

—Voltaire, 1764

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

—Vegetius, c. 385

A jest breaks no bones.

—Samuel Johnson, 1781

It is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.

—Claude McKay, 1937

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

—Henry Adams, 1907

Time robs us of all, even of memory.

—Virgil, c. 40 BC

All pain is one malady with many names.

—Antiphanes, c. 400 BC