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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Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1891I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1935I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932I am weary of friends, and friendships are all monsters.
—Jonathan Swift, 1710The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCThe gratitude is greater than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille, 1641I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
—Robert Frost, 1939