Random Quotes
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Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.Edgar Watson Howe
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.Paul Theroux
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwater
Eyes that see do not grow old.Nicaraguan Proverb
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.William Makepeace Thackeray
The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.Thomas Hobbes, "The Leviathan"
All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The wise learn many things from their enemies.Aristophanes, 450-385 BC, Birds, 414 BC
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shores our bed and eats at our own table.Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.James Joyce