The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
William Dean Howells
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How many other opinions, as universally prevailing and as much respected, will in like manner pass away?
Jean-Baptiste Say
Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority.
Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word “anarchy” was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth.Errico Malatesta
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.
Derrick Jensen
An essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
Tom Stoppard
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