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—Mao Zedong, 1938
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Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.
—Arabic proverbLuck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCBeing a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
—Sammy Davis Jr., 1965Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793Well now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.
—Al Capone, 1929Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924