No real friendship without absolute liberty.
—George Sand, 1866
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Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
—Grace Moore, 1944I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
—Jane Austen, 1814Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1786Egypt was the mother of magicians.
—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200