Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811
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Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
—Tennessee Williams, 1951My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonThe highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903Petty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida, 1880Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of these two has the grander view?
—Victor Hugo, 1862The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.
—Ovid, 10