An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866
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I do love cricket—it’s so very English.
—Sarah Bernhardt, c. 1908No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
—Winston Churchill, 1939The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
—Jane Austen, 1818Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
—Charles Lamb, 1833To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.
—George Eliot, c. 1872A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
—Pliny the Elder, c. 77What is life but organized energy?
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1923Great cities must ever be centers of light and darkness, the home of the best and the worst of our race, holding within themselves the highest talent for good and evil.
—Matthew Hale Smith, 1868