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A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.

—François Rabelais, 1535

Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.

—Thomas Jefferson

The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

—Bertrand Russell, 1938

That which is evil is soon learned. 

—John Ray, 1670

Cows are among the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them—and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

—Thomas De Quincey, 1821

Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

—D.H. Lawrence, 1920

Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.

—Joseph Joubert, 1791

What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.

—Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957

Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.

—Lewis Mumford, 1962

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

—Elbert Hubbard, 1911