An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842
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The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
—Edward Bellamy, 1888Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715