In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933
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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, “He is better off.”
—Edgar Watson Howe, 1911Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCIf the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1513There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
—Voltaire, 1764Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1908He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600