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I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.
—Lord Byron, 1817As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
—Galen, c. 175As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
—Herodotus, c. 440 BCI have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
—Charles Lindbergh, 1948In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953