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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

—Ouida, 1880

It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.

—James Hutton, 1795

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

I live by good soup, and not on fine language.

—Molière, 1672

Thanks be to God: since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

—Samuel Pepys, 1662

As he brews, so shall he drink.

—Ben Jonson, 1598

He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.

—Emperor Francis Joseph, c. 1850

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851

Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

—Edith Hamilton, 1930

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

—Homer, c. 750 BC

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

—John Berger, 1984

I imagined it was more difficult to die. 

—Louis XIV, 1715

What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.

—Henry David Thoreau, 1852