The more sifted, the finer the flour; the more often repeated, the rougher the gossip.
—Korean proverb
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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859Wants keep pace with wealth always.
—Timothy Titcomb, 1859The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCI think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
—Grace Moore, 1944From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
—John Quincy Adams, 1844There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
—Eva Perón, 1949