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The best quarantine is hygiene.

—Richard D. Arnold, 1871

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955

It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. 

—Charlotte Brontë, 1847

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.

—Henry Miller, 1945

All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.

—James Joyce, 1939

There is no small pleasure in sweet water.

—Ovid, c. 10

Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.

—Alain de Lille, c. 1200

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

—Horace, c. 25 BC

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1790

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better, only the god knows.

—Socrates, 399 BC

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.

—Plato, c. 349 BC

What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.

—Henry David Thoreau, 1852