Keep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.
—Ge Hong, c. 320
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Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia, 1943My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
—Margaret Mitchell, 1936I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair, 1935Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.
—Ovid, 10I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow, 1843All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778