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Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save. ↗

— John Gay

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Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand. ↗

— John Gay

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse. ↗

— John Gay

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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. ↗

— John Gay

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Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together. ↗

— John Gay

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She who has never loved has never lived. ↗

— John Gay

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The brave love mercy, and delight to save. ↗

— John Gay

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There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence. ↗

— Peter Gay

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And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically. ↗

— Peter Gay

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Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word. ↗

— Peter Gay

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