Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977
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According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
—Phyllis McGinley, 1957One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
—Alexander Pope, 1709We 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, 1904Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.
—Susanna Centlivre, 1703I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.
—Alain de Lille, c. 1200The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877