I wants to make your flesh creep.
—Charles Dickens, 1837
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Anyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1821The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962I never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.
—Anna Sewell, 1877A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BCIn real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1787