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We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows and, looking at each other with grief and despair, await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.
—Blaise Pascal, 1669It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.
—William Pitt, 1805A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
—Laurie Colwin, 1978Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCI’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestI never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.
—Anna Sewell, 1877Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1911