Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCWhatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
—Will Self, 1994There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCA person who sees only fashion in fashion is a fool.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1830The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.
—Aldous Huxley, 1956