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Enemies are so stimulating.

—Katharine Hepburn, 1969

To teach is to learn twice over.

—Joseph Joubert, c. 1805

Put national causes first and personal grudges last.

—Sima Qian, c. 91 BC

It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.

—Horace, 19 BC

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

—Brigitte Bardot, 1989

Man is the one name belonging to every nation upon earth: there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all.

—Tertullian, c. 217

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885

I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

—Charles Lindbergh, 1948

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.

—John Paul Jones, 1778

What is the city but the people?

—William Shakespeare, 1608

A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.

—Pliny the Younger, c. 109

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

—George Eliot, 1876

In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.

—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348