Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.
—James Monroe, 1808The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Living is an ailment that is relieved every sixteen hours by sleep. A palliative. Death is the cure.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1790A crowded police court docket is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty.
—Mark Twain, 1872Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.
—Karl Kraus, 1909