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When you name yourself, you always name another.

—Bertolt Brecht, 1926

Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.

—George Farquhar, 1702

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

War is fear cloaked in courage. 

—William Westmoreland, 1966

Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.

—Pliny the Younger, c. 108

The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.

—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942

The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.

—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.

—George Orwell, 1945

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.

—Abraham Cowley, 1656

Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.

—French proverb