A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880
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It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
—James Hutton, 1795Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009I live by good soup, and not on fine language.
—Molière, 1672Thanks 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, 1662As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.
—Emperor Francis Joseph, c. 1850The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851Sooner 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, 1930There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCThe past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715What 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