No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverb
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Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
—James Joyce, 1922At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.
—Immanuel Kant, 1781Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, 1959Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCmy mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing