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What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.

—John Camden Hotten, 1859

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

—Henry Clay, 1812

The human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1970

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

—Aristotle, c. 330 BC

The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.

—John Steinbeck, 1941

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

—Virginia Woolf, 1921

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

—Laurie Colwin, 1978

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.

—Judge Learned Hand, 1944

When arms speak, the laws are silent.

—Cicero, 52 BC

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

—Jonathan Swift, 1706

It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.

—James Hutton, 1795

If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988