Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1911How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833People living deeply have no fear of death.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
—Horace Walpole, 1784There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898