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Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay here and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”

—Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, 1989

I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.

—Edith Konecky, 1976

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!

—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843

It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.

—Wendell Berry, 1985

Great cities must ever be centers of light and darkness, the home of the best and the worst of our race, holding within themselves the highest talent for good and evil.

—Matthew Hale Smith, 1868

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1665

Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.

—German proverb

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

—Susanne K. Langer, 1942

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.

—Jonathan Swift, 1702

War has silenced all laws.

—Lucan, c. 65

Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.

—Robert P. Hudson, 1983

It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.

—Euripides, 412 BC