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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.

—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

—Donald Trump, 2015

Nature never breaks her own laws.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

—John Ruskin, 1856

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

—Richard Krause, 1982

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.

—R.D. Laing, 1967

The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.

—Archilochus, c. 650 BC

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

—Thomas Szasz, 1970

Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.

—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816

It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap. 

—Dolly Parton, 1994

Far water cannot quench near fire.

—Japanese proverb