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A friend in power is a friend lost.

—Henry Adams, 1905

We and the dead ride quick at night. 

—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773

Darkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.

—Thomas Hardy, 1874

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871

Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.

—Heraclitus, c. 500 BC

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910

There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.

—Catullus, c. 60 BC

Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.

—Philip Stubbes, 1583

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BC

Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.

—Gustave Flaubert, 1845

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, now that, and changes names as it changes in direction.

—Dante Alighieri, c. 1315

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

—Virginia Woolf, 1929