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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

He who would be happy should stay at home.

—Greek proverb

Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.

—William Blake, c. 1803

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.

—Samuel Johnson, 1773

Great 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, 1862

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

—Laurie Colwin, 1978

My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

—Eugene V. Debs, 1918

Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.

—Elsa Maxwell, 1955

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.

—Fernand Braudel, 1979

Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.

—Lionel Jospin, 1998

Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.

—Lord Byron, 1819

Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

—George Eliot, 1860