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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

—E.B. White, 1977

Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?

—Heinrich Heine, 1827

Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

—George Washington, 1783

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921

Words pay no debts.

—William Shakespeare, 1601

We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.

—George Eliot, 1860

We die of comfort and by conflict live.

—May Sarton, 1953

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

—Willa Cather, 1918

It would be impossible to live for a year without disaster unless one practiced character-reading.

—Virginia Woolf, 1924

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958

Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?

—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992

Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.

—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886