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—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1821
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He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935The merchant always has fresh losses to expect, and the dread of base poverty forbids his rest.
—Decimus Magnus Ausonius, c. 390Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
—Winston Churchill, 1939Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.
—John Camden Hotten, 1859Petty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida, 1880Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbAppearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCWe are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.
—Karl Kraus, 1909