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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

—E.B. White, 1977

It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.

—Wendell Berry, 1985

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

—Rose Macaulay, 1925

It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.

—Anaxandrides, c. 376

I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.

—Jane Austen, c. 1798

The gods play games with men as balls.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

—Thomas Hobbes, 1679

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

—James Joyce, 1922

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

—Michel Foucault, 1975

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. 

—Heinrich Heine, 1827

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.

—Helen Keller, 1928