An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866
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The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.
—Phillis Wheatley, 1774A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816Well now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbIt hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
—Gore Vidal, 1973What is death? A scary mask. Take it off—see, it doesn’t bite.
—Epictetus, c. 110Is it a fact—or have I dreamed it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
—Edward Bellamy, 1888Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706