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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

—Jane Austen, 1818

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, 1904

Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

—Immanuel Kant, 1781

A bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.

—Hesiod, c. 700 BC

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

—Aphra Behn, 1677

If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.

—Reggie Jackson, 1976

If you stain clear water with filth, you will never find a drink.

—Aeschylus, 458 BC

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

—William Blake, 1793

The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

—Edmund Burke, 1790

Business is other people’s money.

—Delphine de Girardin, 1852

The 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