A person who sees only fashion in fashion is a fool.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1830
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The doctor occupies a seat in the front row of the stalls of the human drama, and is constantly watching and even intervening in the tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies which form the raw material of the literary art.
—W. Russell Brain, 1952I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.
—William Pitt, 1805The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
—Carl Sandburg, 1934Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600The self is like an infant: given free rein, it craves to suckle.
—al-Busiri, c. 1250To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.
—George Eliot, c. 1872Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647