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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.

—Horace, 20 BC

Recreations should be as sauces to your meat, to sharpen your appetite unto the duties of your calling, and not to glut yourselves with them.

—Thomas Gouge, 1672

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

—Mark Twain, c. 1900

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

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

—Mitch Hedberg, 1999

I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.

—Grace Moore, 1944

If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.

—David Sedaris, 2004

’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1595

A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.

—Pliny the Elder, c. 77

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.

—Carl Sandburg, 1959

New things are always ugly.

—Willa Cather, 1921

When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.

—Marya Mannes, 1958

Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.

—Terence, 161 BC