No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944
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We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCWar is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1697None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1943It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994The earth is beautiful and bright and kindly, but that is not all. The earth is also terrible and dark and cruel.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.
—Catullus, c. 60 BCRevolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1922Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCDrink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013