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Even a paranoid can have enemies.

—Henry Kissinger, 1977

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794

Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

—Phyllis McGinley, 1957

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1911

You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.

—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

—Alexander Pope, 1709

We 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, 1904

Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.

—Susanna Centlivre, 1703

I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.

—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

—Erica Jong, 1973

Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.

—Alain de Lille, c. 1200

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

—Agnes Repplier, 1929

We 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