"Men are apt to offend where they find most goodness to forgive."

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“Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.”

“I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.”

“They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.”

“Thou liar of the first magnitude.”

“It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.”

“Eternity was in that moment.”

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"In fact, one of the main lesson to be learned from the collapses of the Maya, Anasazi, Easter Islanders, and those other past societies is that a society's steep decline may begin only a decade or two…"

— Jared Diamond

Literature1937

#philosophy

"...To me it has always seemed that God is so sickened with men, and their unending cruelty to each other, that he covers the places where they have been as quickly as possible."

— William March

Literature1893–1954

#religion

"I was just a youngster and believed everything everybody told me. The Dodgers told me a big bonus was no good and they said other players would resent it. Better for me to take small amount and work m…"

— Roberto Clemente

Psychology1934–1972

#justice

"When you have divided government, the administration knows that both the Congress and the mediaare watching it, which restrains its behavior. But we’re in the process of creating an environment where …"

— Paul Waldman

Journalism1936

#knowledge