A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.
—William Blake, 1807
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It is very foolish to attack one’s enemy openly if one can injure him in secret.
—Giambattista Giraldi, 1543What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989I’m doomed to die, right? Why should I care if I go to Hades either with gout in my leg or a runner’s grace? Plenty of people will carry me there.
—Nicharchus, c. 90The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990Memory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.
—Mao Zedong, 1936It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1911Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
—Sigmund Freud, 1930