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I wants to make your flesh creep.

—Charles Dickens, 1837

Anyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1821

The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.

—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650

Those 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, 1747

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

—Amiri Baraka, 1962

I 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, 1877

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

—Susan Sontag, 1977

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

—Hans Zinsser, 1935

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BC

In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1787