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Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

—Robertson Davies, 1985

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.

—Charles Lamb, 1833

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.

—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

—Samuel Johnson, 1750

I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.

—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970

In 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, 1850

There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf. 

—Epicurus, c. 300 BC

The life of spies is to know, not be known.

—George Herbert, c. 1621

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.

—Aldous Huxley, 1956