It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.
—Ovid, c. 8
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCIt is a luxury to be understood.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1831Happiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1939The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985I ride rough waters and shall sink with no one to save me.
—Virginia Woolf, 1931Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
—Sydney Smith, 1855Peace is a natural effect of trade.
—Montesquieu, 1748Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
—Samuel Johnson, 1780