Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
—Samuel Johnson, 1780
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I love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855Peace is a natural effect of trade.
—Montesquieu, 1748Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
—William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911It is very foolish to attack one’s enemy openly if one can injure him in secret.
—Giambattista Giraldi, 1543There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
—Madame de Sévigné, 1671