A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.
—Alexander Woollcott, c. 1935
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Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.
—James Monroe, 1808Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998A crowded police court docket is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty.
—Mark Twain, 1872Darkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCWe’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
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