Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
—George Eliot, 1876
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He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BCIn our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816I love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mold, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1790I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCThousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957