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No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

—George Sand, 1851

Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.

—George Farquhar, 1702

Laughter always arises from a gaiety of disposition, absolutely incompatible with contempt and indignation.

—Voltaire, 1736

For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.

—Petronius, c. 60

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.

—Albert Einstein, 1930

An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid. 

—Jean Anouilh, 1944

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

—Jane Austen, 1815

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

—Charles I, 1636

If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.

—Dolly Parton, 2003

Water is the first principle of everything.

—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BC

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

—Oscar Wilde, 1891