Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942
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The highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932Vox populi, vox humbug.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
—Book of Job, c. 600 BCAmong famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796What is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCMany, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.
—Hans Christian Andersen, 1837It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651