One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978
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From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851Pushing someone toward liberty does not set her free; taking the chains off a prisoner does not give him freedom.
—Ken Bugul, 1982No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCYou must not grow used to making money out of everything. One sees more people ruined than one has seen preserved by shameful gains.
—Sophocles, c. 442 BCThe world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
—Agnes Repplier, 1916If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
—Olive Schreiner, 1883The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCWhen law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.