We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848
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Nature never jests.
—Albrecht von Haller, 1751France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879Do you suppose it possible to know democracy without knowing the people?
—Xenophon, c. 370 BCI am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843The 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, 1765Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.
—John Camden Hotten, 1859The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931