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—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844
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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
—Mark Twain, 1894Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881We 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, 1774You must not grow used to making money out of everything. One sees more people ruined than one has seen preserved by shameful gains.
—Sophocles, c. 442 BCWar is fear cloaked in courage.
—William Westmoreland, 1966Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCPolitics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbAll of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986