People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843
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Even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
—Learned Hand, 1932Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington, 1783Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742To teach is to learn twice over.
—Joseph Joubert, c. 1805For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636