Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938
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The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.
—Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, 1858The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1911A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BCThe brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920Those who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893Trade’s proud empire hastes to swift decay.
—Oliver Goldsmith, 1770Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCThe wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793