To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
—John Buchan, 1940
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956The smell of rain is rich with life.
—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
—James Howell, 1659Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956The self is like an infant: given free rein, it craves to suckle.
—al-Busiri, c. 1250After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.
—John Camden Hotten, 1859According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794Words pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830