The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Samuel Butler
I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.
Harvey Fierstein
It is not titles that honor men but men that honor titles.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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How about us versus them?
Kobe Bryant
Where an excess of power prevails property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions his person his faculties or his possessions.
James Madison
Many foxes grow gray, but few grow good.
Benjamin Franklin
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
Horace
He is armed without who is innocent within be this thy screen and this thy wall of brass.
Horace
