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One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

Make human nature your study wherever you reside—whatever the religion or the complexion, study their hearts.

—Ignatius Sancho, 1778

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832

You are dust, and to dust you shall return.

—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BC

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.

—John Lothrop Motley, 1858

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

—Latin proverb

From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.

—Herman Melville, 1851

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830

If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.

—Thomas Browne, 1658

An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.

—Erasmus, 1511

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

The more sifted, the finer the flour; the more often repeated, the rougher the gossip.

—Korean proverb