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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

—George Santayana, 1905

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

—Xunzi, 250 BC

Put national causes first and personal grudges last.

—Sima Qian, c. 91 BC

Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

—Gerald Priestland, 1988

Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1932

Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.

—Richard Brathwaite, 1631

People living deeply have no fear of death.

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1833

Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

—John Locke, 1695

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.

—Abraham Cowley, 1656

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837