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Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste [Physiologie du Goût]. Paris, 1825, aph. 4.

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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy, translated by M. F. K. Fisher. Vintage, 2011, aph. 4.

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War appears to be as old as mankind, but peace is a modern invention.

Henry Maine

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Maine, Henry. "International Law: Its Origin and Sources." Whewell Lecture. 1887, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK.

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But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart!

Thomas Hood

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Hood, Thomas. "The Lady's Dream." Hood’s Own. London: Edward Moxon, 1862. Originally published in Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany, 1844.

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The people people choose for friends
Your common sense appall,
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Queer People. c. 1899.

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Day her sultry fires had wasted. Calm and sweet the moonlight rose.

Thomas Campbell

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Campbell, Thomas. The Turkish Lady. c. 1840.

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England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted passage, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons... A family with the wrong members in control.

George Orwell

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Orwell, George. "England Your England." The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius. Searchlight Books, edited by T. R. Fyvel and George Orwell. Secker & Warburg, 1941, pt. 1, sec. 3.

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Orwell, George. "The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius." The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell, vol. 2: My Country Right or Left 1940-1943, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 2007, no. 17, pt. 1, sec. 3.

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No furniture so charming as books.

Sydney Smith

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Smith, Sydney. Quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith, by Saba Holland. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, ch. 9.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Francis Bacon

Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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Bacon, Francis. "Of Revenge." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Revenge." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Samuel Johnson

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 7 Dec. 1782.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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There is no land unhabitable nor sea innavigable.

Robert Thorne

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Thorne, Robert. Letter to Dr. Ley. c. 1527.

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Thorne, Robert. Quoted in Voyages and Discoveries: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, by Richard Hakluyt. Penguin Books, 1972.

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Be wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Edward Young

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Young, Edward. Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. c. 1726, satire 2, I. 282.

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Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

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Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers,—stern and wild ones,—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850, ch. 18.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, edited by Brian Harding. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 18.

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But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably drive oneself to distraction in this way.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

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Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. Faber & Faber, 1989.

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Why, America’s the only free nation on earth. Besides! Country’s too big for a revolution. No, no! Couldn’t happen here!

Sinclair Lewis

It Can't Happen Here

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Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 5.

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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Mother and Son

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Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Mother and Son. Victor Gollancz/Julian Messner, 1955, ch. 10.

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It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.

Leon Trotsky

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Trotsky, Leon. Моя Жизнь [My Life]. Charles Scribner's Sons/Thornton Butterworth, 1930, ch. 40.

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The sea is the land's edge also, the granite
Into which it reaches, the beaches where it tosses
It hints of earlier and other creation:
The starfish, the hermit crab, the whale's backbone;
The pools where it offers to our curiosity
The more delicate algae and the sea anemone.
It tosses up our losses, the torn seine,
The shattered lobsterpot, the broken oar
And the gear of foreigh dead men. The sea has many voices.

T.S. Eliot

Four Quartets

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Eliot, T. S. "The Dry Salvages." New English Weekly, Feb. 1941.

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This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 1.

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Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

T.H. Huxley

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Medical Education." 1870, University College London, London, England, UK.

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Medical Education." Collected Essays. Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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