The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957
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I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
—E.B. White, 1944A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.
—Lord Byron, 1812And to our age’s drowsy blood / Still shouts the inspiring sea.
—James Russell Lowell, 1848The highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947The merchant always has fresh losses to expect, and the dread of base poverty forbids his rest.
—Decimus Magnus Ausonius, c. 390