A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.
—Josiah Tucker, 1766
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
—Galileo Galilei, 1615Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
—Doris Lessing, 1994It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCThe future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873We all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.
—Clark Gable, 1935Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.
—George Eliot, 1876To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865