One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977
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Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington, 1783Of all the creatures that breathe and creep on the surface of the earth, none is more to be pitied than man.
—Homer, c. 750 BCI hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1855At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1513Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625