In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1787
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The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, 1876No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
—Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1865Let my epitaph be, “Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook.”
—Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, 1790Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.
—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant, 1784We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847