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Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—­democracy to many.

—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839

I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

—Groucho Marx, 1959

Happiness is a warm puppy.

—Charles Schulz, 1971

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

—Wendell Berry, 1985

A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

—Henry David Thoreau, 1852

How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!

—Edward Young, 1741

Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

Language is the archives of history.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

—Carl Sandburg, 1934

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480

He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

—Benjamin Franklin, 1786

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596