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Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.

—Guy R. Williams, 1975

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.

—Henry David Thoreau, 1849

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

—Paul Valéry, 1931

I wants to make your flesh creep.

—Charles Dickens, 1837

Vox populi, vox humbug.

—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863

Knowledge itself is power.

—Francis Bacon, 1597

To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.

—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

—Rebecca West, 1959

Memory is more indelible than ink.

—Anita Loos, 1974

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

—Ovid, 8

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

—Edmund Burke, 1795

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

—Oscar Wilde, 1894