You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—Joseph Conrad, 1900
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Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775Peace is a natural effect of trade.
—Montesquieu, 1748The only justification of rebellion is success.
—Thomas B. Reed, 1878Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
—Dean Acheson, 1970I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1815Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.
—Jean Cocteau, 1947Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
—Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1865Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
—Walter Scott, 1823