BRITISH LITERATURE
"Double, double toil and trouble"
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William Shakespeare (from Macbeth)
"Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink"
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Samuel T. Coleridge
(from The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner)
"The best laid plans of mice and men . . ."
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Robert Burns (from To a Mouse)
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
- John Keats
"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
- H.G. Wells (from
Country of the Blind)
PHILOSOPHY
"Carpe diem" ("Seize the day") - Horace
"Cogito, ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am.") - Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
"What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it." - Georg Hegel (1770-1831)
"Religion is the opium of the people" - Karl Marx (1818-1883)
"The life that is not examined in not worth living." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire (1694-1778)
GENERAL
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
- Oscar Wilde