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—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973There is no greater disaster than not to know contentment.
—Laozi, c. 550 BCA dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
—Cicero, 44 BCBad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCNo man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
—Karl Kraus, c. 1910