A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.
—Josiah Tucker, 1766
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Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
—Oscar Wilde, 1894The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbSuperstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.
—Susanna Centlivre, 1703In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCHe is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.
—H.L. Mencken, 1925I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830