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There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.

—Jean Anouilh, 1934

There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.

—Catullus, c. 60 BC

War is sweet to those who don’t know it.

—Erasmus, 1508

There is no small pleasure in sweet water.

—Ovid, c. 10

I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.

—Elizabeth I, 1588

A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.

—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BC

Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.

—Joseph Joubert, 1791

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

—Ouida, 1880

You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.

—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

—Dorothy Parker

No one’s serious at seventeen.

—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

—Dai Vernon, 1994

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

—Jane Austen, 1814