Friend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling.
—Harriet Jacobs, 1861
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The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Had Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.
—Blaise Pascal, 1658Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbIt’s only the futility of the first flood that prevents God from sending a second.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1794An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
—Plato, c. 360 BCAll women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895I shall embrace my rival—until I suffocate him.
—Jean Racine, 1669The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 500 BCWhen nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.
—Marya Mannes, 1958It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
—Mark Twain, 1873