Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
—Jane Austen, 1818
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We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
—Ida M. Tarbell, 1904Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.
—Immanuel Kant, 1781A bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCMoney speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
—Aphra Behn, 1677If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976If you stain clear water with filth, you will never find a drink.
—Aeschylus, 458 BCThe wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BC