In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1787
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
—Philip Sidney, 1582Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915Never trust her at any time when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.
—Lucretius, c. 60 BCSuch then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764