If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991
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How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.
—William Pitt, 1805And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
—Samuel Johnson, 1791I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCRebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BCThe sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.
—Lawrence Durrell, 1957