Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918
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The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1810It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCArt is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCA maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.
—The Simpsons, 1993Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
—Plato, c. 378 BC