Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928
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Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938I have given up considering happiness as relevant.
—Edward Gorey, 1974The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCDon’t hit a man at all if you can avoid it, but if you have to hit him, knock him out.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1916Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.
—Hans Christian Andersen, 1837There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
—Booth Tarkington, 1914When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1666The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921