In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1787
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I have yet, I believe, some years in store, for I have a good state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance. This, I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life.
—Thomas Paine, 1803If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865Television is democracy at its ugliest.
—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976There are some who, if a cat accidentally comes into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat and ready to die away.
—Increase Mather, 1684The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 56 BCLet the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.
—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BCDiseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605