That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961In every man is a wild beast; most of them don’t know how to hold it back, and the majority give it full rein when they are not restrained by terror of law.
—Frederick the Great, 1759I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbOnce something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
—Olive Schreiner, 1883Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
—Alexander Pope, 1709Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1787