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Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington, 1783Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I, 1636Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.
—Adam Smith, 1776One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.
—John Lothrop Motley, 1858As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
—Frederick Douglass, 1855Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BC