With the dead there is no rivalry.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839
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There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934Men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BCArt, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCIt belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCCarnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
—Robert A. Heinlein, 1984A false report rides post.
—English proverbCelibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920There are some who, if a cat accidentally comes into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat and ready to die away.
—Increase Mather, 1684We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845