Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857
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I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984Fear is the foundation of most governments.
—John Adams, 1776Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington, 1783It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
—John Buchan, 1940The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCA machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865