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All men think all men mortal, but themselves.
— Edward Young

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
— Martin Tupper

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
— Harry S. Truman

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
— Lev Trotsky

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
— Leo Tolstoy

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.
— Edward, First Baron Thurlow

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
— Edward Thomas

We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.
— Thomas A Kempis

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be a sometimes a snob.
— William Makepeace Thackeray

It takes two to speak the truth,-one to speak, and another to hear.
— Henry David Thoreau

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
— Henry David Thoreau

Ther are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.
— Henry David Thoreau

Our life is fritted away by detail ... simplify, simplify.
— Henry David Thoreau

The multitude is always in the wrong.
— Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon

But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
— Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
— President Theodore Roosevelt

There is a homely adage which runs 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; You will go far.'
— President Theodore Roosevelt

Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
— President Franklin D. Roosevelt

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
— Edward John Phelps

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
— Jonathan Swift

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir!
— Dr. Routh

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
— Oscar Wilde

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
— Oscar Wilde

Some people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
— President Woodrow Wilson

He knows death to the bone - Man has created death.
— W. B. Yeats