I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbIt costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They indeed are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCLiberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605