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—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 56 BC
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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1919I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1929The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967Anyone who’s never watched somebody die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.
—John Osborne, 1956I looked and there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed with him.
—Book of Revelations, c. 90Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.
—Mark Twain, c. 1900Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCToo often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008Human happiness never remains long in the same place.
—Herodotus, c. 430 BCTo hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45