There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.
—William Howard Taft, 1921I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
—Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965The true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, c. 1952When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884