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Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.

—Thomas Hughes, 1857

Home is wherever I go.

—Indira Gandhi, 1955

As usual, what we call “progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

—Havelock Ellis, 1914

Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.

—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BC

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

Petty laws breed great crimes.

—Ouida, 1880

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

—Aphra Behn, 1677

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

—Denis Diderot, 1774

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.

—Aldous Huxley, 1925

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

—Pearl S. Buck, 1943

Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.

—Simone Weil, 1943

The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.

—Izaak Walton, 1653