If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
—Mark Twain, 1894
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Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.
—Prudentius, c. 405War is sweet to those who don’t know it.
—Erasmus, 1508Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.
—The Simpsons, 1993The highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903I have yet, I believe, some years in store, for I have a good state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance. This, I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life.
—Thomas Paine, 1803For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856