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—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943
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Living is an ailment that is relieved every sixteen hours by sleep. A palliative. Death is the cure.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1790Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
—Booth Tarkington, 1914A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.
—W.H. Auden, 1946I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
—Anna Jameson, 1846Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.
—Arthur Miller, 2001If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract—teach him to deduct.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816One great reason why many children abandon themselves wholly to silly sports and trifle away all their time insipidly is because they have found their curiosity baulked and their inquiries neglected.
—John Locke, 1693Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655