There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891
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There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1992Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Anyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1821No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BCFeasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence, the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
—Mary Renault, 1956He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BCThere is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789