We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845
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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 108What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170I imagine that one of the first forms of behavior, like one of the first signals, may be reduced to this: “Keep me warm.”
—Michel Serres, 1982Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947