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Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.

—L.M. Montgomery, 1927

He laughs best who laughs last.

—French proverb

Men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BC

We all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.

—Clark Gable, 1935

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

—Al Smith, 1933

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

Once you hear the details of a victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1951

It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.

—Horace, 19 BC

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

—Mark Twain, 1879

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

—Henrik Ibsen, 1882

Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.

—Frantz Fanon, 1961

Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815