What is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence, the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
—Mary Renault, 1956A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733I do love cricket—it’s so very English.
—Sarah Bernhardt, c. 1908He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666Once you hear the details of a victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1951Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC