No nation was ever ruined by trade.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1774
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Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.
—Gnomologia, 1732Memory is more indelible than ink.
—Anita Loos, 1974Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963The civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1513Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
—Julie Burchill, 1986Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BC