Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951
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I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
—Laurie Colwin, 1978The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760Human happiness never remains long in the same place.
—Herodotus, c. 430 BCThe future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
—Mark Twain, 1897A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.
—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612