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—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789
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The history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
—Rudy Giuliani, 1999Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCI hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1810Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCHome is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.
—James Baldwin, 1953To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.
—Lord Byron, 1821