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Aesop
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
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Anaxagoras, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
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William Shakespeare
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks
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Francis Bacon
Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty.
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Bernard M. Baruch
Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
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Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
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Charles Lindbergh, Interview shortly before his death, 1974
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
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Thomas Jefferson
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
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Samuel Johnson, Rasselas
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
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Ashanti Proverb
One cannot both feast and become rich.
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Honore\' de Balzac
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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John Steinbeck, East of Eden, Chapter 13, Part II
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
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