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—William Shakespeare, 1601
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Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
—Alexander Pope, 1738There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows and, looking at each other with grief and despair, await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.
—Blaise Pascal, 1669According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.
—Arthur Miller, 2001Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
—Aphra Behn, 1677The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950