A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816
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We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
—Joseph Addison, 1711What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1923In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
—Roald Dahl, 1990Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.
—LaoziSome are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BCHistories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
—Alexander Pope, 1709