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The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

—Salvador Dalí, 1953

That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.

—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813

I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.

—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792

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

—Laurie Colwin, 1978

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1911

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

—Montesquieu, 1748

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

—Joseph Conrad, 1900

I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!

—George H. W. Bush, 1990

Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

—Jane Austen, 1811

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.

—Lawrence Durrell, 1957

Nature is the art of God.

—Thomas Browne, 1635

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1734