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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.

—Iris Murdoch, 1974

Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.

—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913

What touches all shall be approved by all.

—Edward I, 1295

Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.

—Alexander Hamilton, 1787

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.

—John Fletcher, 1625

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

—Pope John Paul I, 1978

Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

—Douglas Jerrold, 1840

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

—The Upanishads, c. 800 BC

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

—E.M. Forster, 1951

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200