How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BC
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The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1657None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1943Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.
—William Howard Taft, 1921Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972It is a luxury to be understood.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1831If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843People living deeply have no fear of death.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbHe who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886