In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880
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In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.
—Phillis Wheatley, 1774I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestWith the dead there is no rivalry.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCThe twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.
—The Simpsons, 1993An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842Industrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
—Dora Russell, 1983Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
—James Madison, 1794