One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.
—William Faulkner, 1958
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If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCThe gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
—Winston Churchill, 1943One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, 1876In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods—restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
—Robert Burton, 1621The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story.
—Suketu Mehta, 2019When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918Style is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.
—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940