Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943
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The highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCNothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1847When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbMy language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
—Karl Kraus, c. 1910It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917The bathing was so delightful this morning, and Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself, that I believe I stayed in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired. I shall be more careful another time, and shall not bathe tomorrow as I had before intended.
—Jane Austen, 1804I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816Industrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
—Dora Russell, 1983Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807