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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

—W.H. Auden, 1957

There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

—Aristotle, c. 330 BC

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889

The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. 

—Plato, c. 348 BC

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie knife.

—James Russell Lowell, 1873

If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

—William Blake, 1804

Those who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.

—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893

Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.

—Samora Moisés Machel, c. 1976

The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.

—Juvenal, c. 125

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1610

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

—George Eliot, 1857