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All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness.

—Shantideva, c. 750

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.

—Francis Grose, 1787

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

—Dorothy Parker

Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.

—Theognis, c. 550 BC

I shall embrace my rival—until I suffocate him.

—Jean Racine, 1669

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.

—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999

I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.

—Winnie Mandela, 1985

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.

—Herman Melville, 1853

Happiness is a warm puppy.

—Charles Schulz, 1971

Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.

—William Wycherley, 1675

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

—Abraham Lincoln, 1861