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If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.

—Dolly Parton, 2003

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!

—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583

War to the castles; peace to the cottages.

—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790

All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.

—Han Yu, c. 800

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

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

One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.

—Ernst Jünger, 1977

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

—Hesiod, c. 700 BC

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1605

What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!

—Richard Burton, 1883

Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.

—George Eliot, 1860

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1809