Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006
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Memory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.
—Gnomologia, 1732I think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.
—Robert Frost, 1959Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.
—Susanna Centlivre, 1703Every man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813