Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.
—Italian proverbThere is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.
—Aldous Huxley, 1956More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1787What is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCTelevision is democracy at its ugliest.
—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976War to the castles; peace to the cottages.
—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790