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—Joseph Joubert, c. 1805
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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
—Mark Twain, 1873The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
—H.L. Mencken, 1921How can we bear misfortune most easily? If we see our enemies faring worse.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 585 BCNight is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.
—Dorothy M. Richardson, 1923Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960Some things are privileged from jest—namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, all men’s present business of importance, and any case that deserves pity.
—Francis Bacon, 1597I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851