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Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1935What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCGod is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.
—William Blake, 1807The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
—H.G. Wells, 1905Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675Today’s friend may be tomorrow’s foe.
—Sophocles, 440 BCI have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
—Gregory VII, c. 1085We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
—John Winthrop, 1630There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
—H.L. Mencken, 1920Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851