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—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903
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A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCHow like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BCHumiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
—John Donne, c. 1629Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598