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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. 

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

The god of music dwelleth out of doors.

—Edith M. Thomas, 1887

Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770

Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908

A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.

—Ethiopian proverb

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.

—Sallust, c. 35 BC

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968