There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
—Nancy Spain, 1956
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Anyone 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, 1821We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things, and once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.
—Guy R. Williams, 1975Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.
—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BCWhen you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbMan is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791