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It is better to live unknown to the law.

—Irish proverb

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.

—E.M. Forster, 1910

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844

By night an atheist half believes a God.

—Edward Young, c. 1745

To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864

When the physician said to him, “You have lived to be an old man,” he said, “That is because I never employed you as my physician.”

—Pausanias, c. 450 BC

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

—Maya Angelou, 1986

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

—Ouida, 1880

To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

—Walter Pater, 1873

We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.

—Samuel Pepys, 1661

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

—V.S. Pritchett, 1968

Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939