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A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

—Ronald Reagan, 1965

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.

—Thomas Jefferson

There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1738

The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.

—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880

There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!

—Rachel Field, 1939

Nature is the art of God.

—Thomas Browne, 1635

Memories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.

—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1913

Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.

—Ann Plato, 1841

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

—Salvador Dalí, 1953

No real friendship without absolute liberty.

—George Sand, 1866

Today’s friend may be tomorrow’s foe.

—Sophocles, 440 BC

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

—Montesquieu, 1748