When we define democracy now, it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1941
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The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.
—Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, 1858Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCI have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCThey exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BCHygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851