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If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

—Horace, c. 35 BC

People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.

—Robert Byrd, 2005

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.

—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913

One of the things men should most strive to do is win a good reputation and see that no one questions it.

—Juan Manuel, 1335

We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.

—Ida M. Tarbell, 1904

Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1911

I proclaim night more truthful than the day.

—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

—Mario Puzo, 2001

Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.

—Davy Crockett, 1834

Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.

—Shirley Chisholm, 1970

The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.

—Edward O. Wilson, 2009