What man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125
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I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow, 1843The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCEducate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
—Pliny the Elder, c. 77The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.
—H.L. Mencken, 1925