There is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverb
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A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1855The highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCBy nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCI shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
—Lord Byron, 1813Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881