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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

—Emma Goldman, 1917

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. 

—Heinrich Heine, 1827

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.

—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929

Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.

—Roman proverb

Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.

—Confucius, c. 350 BC

Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

—John Morley, 1872

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.

—William Faulkner, 1958

Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.

—Juvenal, c. 121

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

—J.M. Barrie, 1922

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.

—Robert P. Hudson, 1983

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

—Alexander Pope, 1738

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

—Cicero, 44 BC