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Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1776

All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.

—James Joyce, 1939

Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.

—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

—Denis Diderot, 1774

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

—Charles Dickens, 1843

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955

It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

—Helen MacInnes, 1963

Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1666

To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.

—Plutarch, c. 100

Words pay no debts.

—William Shakespeare, 1601

Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.

—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.

—Evelyn Waugh, 1963