That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
—Willa Cather, 1918
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He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbFor what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
—Simon Hoggart, 1990The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.
—William Pitt, 1805Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998Egypt was the mother of magicians.
—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200Man is the one name belonging to every nation upon earth: there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all.
—Tertullian, c. 217Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestWhat is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
—John Morley, 1872