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So many men, so many opinions.

—Terence, 161 BC

Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?

—Amy Lowell, 1922

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811

Fear has a smell, as love does.

—Margaret Atwood, 1972

I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.

—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

—Mark Twain, 1876

A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

—Herman Melville, 1851

What one man can invent another can discover.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.

—Albert Einstein, 1930

We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.

—Joseph Addison, 1711

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

—Mario Puzo, 2001

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

—Agnes Repplier, 1929

One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.

—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BC