A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851
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No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
—George Sand, 1851Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.
—James J. Cramer, 2006When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
—Doris Lessing, 1994I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbWhoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.
—H.L. Mencken, 1925Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCIf I lose at play, I blaspheme, and if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So that God is always sure to be the loser.
—John Donne, 1623The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.
—Tacitus, 117