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I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.

—Madonna, c. 1985

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

—Bob Dylan, 1966

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

—Basho, c. 1690

Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

—Hans Zinsser, 1935

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

—Jane Austen, 1818

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

—Bertrand Russell, 1930

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

—Terence, 163 BC

To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.

—Seneca the Younger, c. 45

Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children. 

—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.

—Lord Byron, 1821