One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895
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It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867A bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCAll our enemies are mortal.
—Paul Valéry, 1942You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
—Aristophanes, c. 424 BCFamiliarity breeds contempt—and children.
—Mark Twain, c. 1900New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Let my epitaph be, “Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook.”
—Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, 1790The earth is beautiful and bright and kindly, but that is not all. The earth is also terrible and dark and cruel.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822