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Whoever has died is freed from sin.

—St. Paul, c. 50

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

—Roald Dahl, 1984

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

—Herman Melville, 1851

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

—Carl Sandburg, 1959

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

I ride rough waters and shall sink with no one to save me.

—Virginia Woolf, 1931

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

—Philip Sidney, 1582

The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.

—Baltasar Gracián, 1647

Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.

—Juvenal, 128

The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.

—Tacitus, 117

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

—Edmund Burke, 1790

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

—Samuel Johnson, 1776

A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.

—Eric Hodgins, 1964