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Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.

—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844

He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.

—Italian proverb

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1928

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910

Shamelessness is the shame of being without shame.

—Mencius, c. 290 BC

The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

To teach is to learn twice over.

—Joseph Joubert, c. 1805

At the start there’s always energy.

—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

—Susanne K. Langer, 1942

No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.

—German proverb

Oh, democracy! Whither are you leading us?

—Aristophanes, 414 BC

Life is the art of being well deceived.

—William Hazlitt, c. 1817

Nobody, sir, dies willingly.

—Antiphanes, c. 370 BC