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The more sifted, the finer the flour; the more often repeated, the rougher the gossip.

—Korean proverb

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. 

—Aldous Huxley, 1929

As 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, 1859

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

—Timothy Titcomb, 1859

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC

I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.

—Grace Moore, 1944

From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60

My 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, 1844

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

—Anthony Trollope, 1862

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

—Hannah Arendt, 1970

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

—George Eliot, 1872

Secrets 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, 1998

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.

—Eva Perón, 1949