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—Jane Austen, 1814
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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1919Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.
—Samuel Purchas, 1613There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That’s a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.
—Philip K. Dick, 1972Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
—H.M. Tomlinson, 1912Drunkenness is the very sepulcher / Of man’s wit and his discretion.
—Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.
—Lord Byron, 1817One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BC