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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

Everyone lives by selling something.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892

It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap. 

—Dolly Parton, 1994

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

—Mark Twain, 1897

Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

Despotism achieves great things illegally; democracy doesn’t even take the trouble to achieve small things legally.

—Honoré de Balzac, 1831

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. 

—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1833

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.

—Italian proverb

The merchant always has fresh losses to expect, and the dread of base poverty forbids his rest.

—Decimus Magnus Ausonius, c. 390

Divine nature gave the fields; human art built the cities.

—Marcus Terentius Varro, c. 70 BC

Education—a debt due from present to future generations.

—George Peabody, 1852